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Death Race 2000 is a 1975 American dystopian science-fiction action film directed by Paul Bartel and produced by Roger Corman for New World Pictures. [4] Set in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, the film centers on the murderous Transcontinental Road Race, in which participants score points by striking and killing pedestrians.
The 1976 video game Death Race was inspired by the film Death Race 2000. A remake of the same name was released in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System . The video game Maze Death Race , released in 1982 for the ZX81 and in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum , resembles the film by its cover artwork, title, and car-driving content.
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In the 2008 remake of the 1975 film, ex-race driver Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) is imprisoned on Terminal Island after he is framed for his wife's murder. Terminal Island is home to a televised gladiator-style race called the Death Race, and Ames soon finds himself forced to race by the tyrannical Warden Hennessey . Ames must assume the mantle ...
Bartel later said he worked for a year on Death Race 2000 for $5,000 "so when it was finished I desperately needed money. The only thing anybody wanted from me was another car picture, hence Cannonball. Corman had drummed into me the idea that if Death Race had been "harder" and "more real" it would have been more popular. Like a fool, I ...
Wild in the Streets, based on a short story written by Thom and originally published in Esquire under the title, "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" [4] was an exploitation film success for American International Pictures in 1968. [1] Thom both wrote and for the first time directed his own film, Angel, Angel, Down We Go, in 1969 for AIP. [1]
Death Race is a 2008 dystopian action thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.It stars Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, and Joan Allen.. Though referred to as a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000 (which in turn is based on Ib Melchior's short story "The Racer") in reviews and marketing materials, director Paul W. S. Anderson stated in the DVD commentary that he ...
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