Death Race Trailer Starring Jason Statham
The first trailer has arrived online for Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race starring Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane and Joan Allen. The movie is a remake of the 1975 Roger Corman-produced Death Race 2000, about a Running Man-esque TV show where convicts are given suped-up cars and forced to race for their freedom. This is the kind of dumb fun that I look forward to on the big screen; nothing overly complicated, just plenty explosions, fist fights and exaggerated characters.
Of course, when you realize that the original starred David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone, you have to wonder how this remake can possibly improve on it. I’m just glad they didn’t make the cars all super slick and shiny, and instead kept them looking like junk heaps outfitted for battle (which they should be). Paul W.S. Anderson may not have a ton of great movies under his belt, but he does seem like the right guy to direct this. Check out the Death Race trailer below; it hits theatres on August 22nd.
Comments (6)
Oh man, there are so many things that make no sense in this trailer. How many former nascar drivers have british accents? Why are the ladies from the woman prison so insanely hot? They usually look like Meat Loaf. I feel like whenever the movie industry starts getting sick of mindless action like this, there is Jason Statham to the rescue (See Crank, Crank 2: High Voltage, Chaos, Transporter 1 and 2…and evenntually 3, War etc.)
Posted by Matt on June 16th, 2008He hasn’t done anything I personally liked since Snatch. And I usually like action movies but this type of movie does nothing for me.
Jason Statham is one of the coolest action stars around today, but he can’t match the one-two punch of David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone. I’m generally against remakes but this one is fine as Death Race 2000 is merely a cult camp romp for it’s content rather than auteur execution. I was all go until I read the name Paul W.S. Anderson. I disagree with you; the only movie he is fit to direct would be about three morbidly obese dudes eating burritos and lasagna and then taking sloppy disgusting shits all over every DVD copy of Anderson’s movies (except for Mortal Kombat; that was ok).
I hate Paul W.S. Anderson. I just saw this special on Starz (cable movie channel) about video game movies. Of course, Anderson has been financially successful and prolific in that arena so he was interviewed. He claims to have played the first three Resident Evil games before writing the script. Paul W.S. Anderson is a complete liar with pants constantly on fire. If he had played the games he would have realized Resident Evil isn’t action it’s horror. The plot to the first game was way better then the one he came up with and he didn’t even use the characters from the game! Honestly, I wouldn’t have liked the movies even if the games didn’t exist.
AVP was a similar thing. Instead of reading any of the comics or making any attempt to further analyze the dynamics of the two species he went with a boring shit action movie. Sanaa Lathan’s character used a xenomorph’s head as a shield. They bleed acid! Did he even watch Alien!? Anderson needs to pay attention to source material before he goes off ruining more of my beloved franchises. I thank the Movie Gods he turned X-Men down.
Posted by Ryan on June 16th, 2008This looks absolutely horrible. It looks more like twisted metal than death race. Where is the satire??
Posted by cronenfly on June 16th, 2008I don’t think they’re going for satire this time around. Audiences won’t “get it”.
Posted by Marina on June 16th, 2008I’ve gotta say, this trailer makes Death Race look about 100 times better than I was expecting based on the involvement of Anderson and Statham. I’m not saying that it’s gonna be good, but I’ll probably see it in the theater based on what I’ve seen here.
Posted by Rian on June 16th, 2008jason rules!!
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