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Death Race 2

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Death Race 2 is a 2010 action film that was directed by Roel Reiné and written by Tony Giglio, who co-developed its story with Paul W. S. Anderson. The film is a co-production between South Africa and Germany, and is the prequel to Anderson's 2008 film Death Race—which itself is a prequel to 1975's Death Race 2000—and the second installment in the Death Race franchise. Death Race 2 stars Luke Goss as Carl "Luke" Lucas, a convicted cop killer who is sentenced to life in a for-profit, maximum security prison, where he is forced to compete in the titular reality show to earn his freedom. Fred Koehler, Tanit Phoenix, Robin Shou, Lauren Cohan, Danny Trejo, Ving Rhames, and Sean Bean appear in supporting roles; Koehler and Shou reprise theirs from Death Race.

Death Race 2
Cover art
Directed byRoel Reiné
Screenplay byTony Giglio
Story by
Based onCharacters
by Paul W. S. Anderson
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJohn McKay
Edited by
  • Radu Ion
  • Herman P. Koerts
Music byPaul Haslinger
Production
companies
  • Universal Pictures Productions GmbH
  • Moonlighting Death Race Films C.C.[1]
Distributed byUniversal Studios Home Entertainment
Release dates
  • December 27, 2010 (2010-12-27) (United Kingdom)
  • January 18, 2011 (2011-01-18) (U.S. and Canada)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesSouth Africa
Germany
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6–18 million[i]

Death Race 2 was greenlit as a prequel that tells the origin story of the franchise's protagonist Frankenstein without the directorial involvement of Anderson, who was retained as producer, and the appearance of Jason Statham. Reiné signed on to direct the project and filming began in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 13, 2010. Reiné directed the 30-day shoot without a second unit, served as his own cinematographer, albeit uncredited, and opted for locations in which he could have a few sets going all at once to manage the schedule and the $6–18 million budget. Paul Haslinger returned to score the film.

Universal Pictures released the film direct-to-video through its home entertainment division on January 18, 2011, although it set the earliest release date for the United Kingdom to December 27, 2010. Death Race 2 received generally favorable reviews, with many critics choosing it over the previous film. Reiné also directed a direct-to-video sequel, Death Race 3: Inferno (2013).

Plot summary

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A gang robs a bank for the crime boss Markus Kane. When two police officers enter the building, getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas tries to convince his accomplices to abort, but they refuse. Luke intervenes, resulting in the death of one of the robbers. Luke kills an officer and abandons his accomplices to fulfill Markus's wishes. Following a chase, Luke is captured, sentenced to prison, and later transferred to Terminal Island. Markus orders a hit on him, convinced Luke will trade information about his crimes for immunity, even though Luke vows never to do so.

Terminal Island is a for-profit, maximum security prison controlled by Weyland Corporation. Among their sources of income is "Death Match", a televised pay-per-view, gladiator-style combat show with prisoners as participants. The prisoners are given access to weapons or defensive items to use. Death Match is hosted by disgraced former Miss Universe September Jones, now a Weyland Corporation employee.

Luke meets Lists, Goldberg, and Rocco, and catches September's attention after protecting Lists from an attempted assault. September makes sexual advances and tries to temp Luke to fight for prison privileges, but Luke rejects her. In retaliation, September chooses Lists to fight Big Bill, an imposing Black prisoner who attacked him earlier. Luke jumps into the caged arena to fight Big Bill, briefly assisted by convict ring girl Katrina Banks. Sparked by racial tension, a riot starts. Prisoners force their way into the arena and some of them attempt to rape the female convicts. Katrina defends herself and the other women, who are then evacuated. Guards intervene and Luke surrenders; he then talks with Katrina. Realizing Luke is still alive, Markus puts a $1 million bounty on his head.

September launches an offshoot of "Death Match" that Weyland names "Death Race". To earn their freedom, prisoners must win five races driving heavily armed, reinforced vehicles over three days, and female convicts must play navigators for each racer. Luke enters the race with Katrina as his navigator, and Lists, Goldberg, and Rocco as his pit crew. After finishing at first place, Luke is congratulated by Weyland and offered Katrina as a prize. Once left alone, Luke and Katrina briefly converse and have sex. Later, September puts Luke in solitary confinement to protect him from prisoners and guards who wish to fulfill Markus' bounty, and Katrina is brought to Markus, who offers her freedom in exchange for killing Luke.

During the second race, most of Luke's opponents go after him. The only exception is triad member 14K, whom Luke saved from another racer. Katrina tells Luke about Markus's offer. In the late stage of the race, Luke's car malfunctions, having been sabotaged. He ejects Katrina from the car before getting hit by Big Bill's heat-seeking missile. Katrina and Luke's pit crew fail to save Luke from the burning car. Big Bill's navigator fatally stabs her partner after he kills his own pit crew and grabs her by the throat. Unbeknownst to everyone but September, Luke survives albeit badly burned; she coerces him into joining the race in a mask under the moniker "Frankenstein".

As the last race begins, a triad assassin executes Markus in his mansion as 14K's favor to Luke, Lists fatally stabs Rocco for sabotaging Luke's car, and Luke reverses and runs over September, killing her. Intrigued by his new identity, Katrina then asks Luke whether he has a real name, and he replies, "Of course I do." She smiles as they return to the race.

Cast

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Additional members of the cast include Patrick Lyster as Warden Parks, DeObia Oparei as Big Bill, Hennie Bosman as Xander Grady, Joe Vaz as Rocco, Danny Keogh as Dr. Klein, Warrick Grier as Calin, and Tanya van Graan as Holly.[8]

Production

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Development and pre-production

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A prequel to writer-director Paul W. S. Anderson's 2008 film Death Race, which itself is a prequel to 1975's Death Race 2000,[9] was put into development by August 2009.[10] Screenwriter Tony Giglio described the prequel, which was tentatively titled Death Race: Frankenstein Lives, as "an origin film, in every sense", exploring the origins of the "Death Race", and the characters Frankenstein, Case, and Lists. Giglio conceived the protagonist, Carl "Luke" Lucas, as a stark contrast to the Jason Statham character that headlined the previous film, saying: "He wasn't framed. He's not fighting to get out to save his children. He's a convicted cop killer. A guy who's worked for the [American] mob his whole life. A true anti-hero."[11] Universal Pictures greenlit Giglio's script in November 2009.[12] Neither Anderson nor Statham returned for the prequel due to other commitments, though Anderson remained as producer with Jeremy Bolt and Mike Elliott.[10][13][14] Dutch director Roel Reiné signed on to direct in December 2009, when he had just completed production on The Marine 2.[15] Other key crew members on the film include production designer Johnny Breedt,[16] editors Radu Ion and Herman P. Koerts,[17] and composer Paul Haslinger, who scored the previous film.[18]

Reiné called the script "a really cool prequel to the Death Race world",[19] although he made some revisions on it. One of these includes adding a fight scene and high-speed police chase to the bank heist sequence to establish Luke as a skilled fighter and high-performance driver before the "Death Race" sequences,[20] which do not begin until one hour into the film.[21] Other reasons Reiné did so were because the original film was unable to show but merely tell that the Statham character is a skilled driver before "Death Race",[22] and that Giglio's script lacked enough action scenes in the first 30 pages.[23] Inspired by the flamethrowers mounted on the armored truck in the previous film, Reiné revised a "Death Match" sequence he described as "a very regular stage fight with some weapons" to include a flamethrower battle between Luke and his opponent to "bring it up a notch".[24] Reiné also incorporated different beats to the racing scenes, which he felt were derivative of those in the previous film.[25] Likewise, Reiné lobbied to add some slow, tender moments to the script to pause for character and drama and temper its rapid pacing.[26][27] Giglio's script, for example, originally had Luke immediately brought to fight in a "Death Match" by the time he is sent to prison as opposed to, as Reiné suggests, taking a moment to sympathize with Luke as he sits in his cell contemplating his fate as a prisoner for life.[28]

To accommodate his visual style for the film, Reiné lobbied to serve as his own cinematographer and camera operator—particularly on the "A" camera—in lieu of working with a cinematographer commissioned by the studio.[29] When Universal agreed, Reiné was allowed to hire whom he described as a "really, really high-end" South African gaffer, John McKay, to "basically light the movie" as he shot everything;[30] even so, McKay received sole credit as "director of photography".[31] Because Universal wanted the film shot on high definition, Reiné opted for the Sony CineAlta F35 and the Phantom digital movie cameras. Upon performing a test shoot of the cameras, Reiné found the F35 and the Phantom produced desirable image qualities, had better shutter speeds, and could manage when used in quick, hand-held scenarios.[32]

 
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Luke Goss and Sean Bean were the director Roel Reiné's top picks to play their respective roles on Death Race 2.

Casting began in November 2009.[14] On March 1, 2010, The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog reported that Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Lauren Cohan, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, and Frederick Koehler had joined the cast.[33] Reiné said he was "so lucky" to get both Goss and Bean on board the project, as they were his top picks to play Luke and his boss, respectively.[34] To persuade Bean to join the cast of a relatively low-budget prequel, Reiné had to ask Anderson to do it on his behalf by way of Anderson and Bean's previous collaboration on Shopping (1994), Anderson's feature directorial debut.[35] Goss told Den of Geek he accepted the lead role because he was largely sold on the script, which he thought had a plot-driven story beyond the "fun" action set pieces.[36] Of Rhames's casting, Reiné said he offered Rhames the role of a powerful tycoon over the phone, which Rhames accepted and gave ideas about the character.[37] Reiné approached Trejo to play an inmate despite what he perceived to be Trejo's "very busy" schedule working on big-budget films every year.[38] Koehler and Robin Shou, according to Reiné, were both delighted to reprise their roles from the previous film, and that each was given more character beats than in the original.[39][40]

Reiné said the production managed to locate almost all of the cars from the original film in the United States, where they bought them back from their respective collectors, and that they had to rebuild the missing two—a Dodge Ram and a Chrysler—"from scratch".[41][ii]

Filming

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Wire work enabled Reiné (pictured top) to create "handheld crane shots" for a major "Death Match" sequence.

With a $6–18 million budget,[i] principal photography began on February 13, 2010, on location in Cape Town, South Africa.[46] The film is a co-production between Germany and South Africa,[1] and attracted tax breaks for being filmed in South Africa.[4]: 6  Reiné directed the 30-day shoot[47] without a second unit, which he had always eschewed in favor of shooting independently.[48] To manage the budget and the schedule,[47] Reiné said he opted for locations in which he could "at least have four or five sets going at the same time";[49] on each day he would split his time between interior and exterior sets, shooting scenes that were spread across different locations.[49][50] The film was shot with two each of the Sony CineAlta F35 and Phantom digital cameras.[51] Because of the weight of the F35, Reiné relied upon the Phantom when he would shoot handheld in addition to slow motion shots.[52][53] Besides slow motion, Reiné incorporated 360-degree tracking shots[54] as well as "handheld crane shots" for a major "Death Match" sequence, which he accomplished with wire work.[55]

Prison scenes were shot in an abandoned cement factory near slums outside Cape Town.[44][4]: 6  In a castle Reiné said to be located "in the centre of Cape Town", a narrow tunnel was used as prison tunnel,[56] and scenes set in the Weyland Corporation headquarters were shot in the Cape Town International Convention Centre.[57] A now-defunct hospital was used as the prison clinic despite Reiné's complaints about its "disgusting" smell of dried human blood emanating from dirty towels "from 10, 20 years ago" in one of the rooms.[58] The scene where Luke undergoes transformation as Frankenstein was shot in the hospital's kitchen area.[59]

 
Cape Town's unfinished bridge (pictured in 2007) was used for the police chase sequence.

According to Goss, he and Reiné decided some shots of his driving sequences would be filmed as he drove the cars, citing the 1968 film Bullitt as an influence.[60] Reiné said the police chase on the freeway, which ends at Cape Town's unfinished bridge, could not be shot until Sunday, between six to nine o'clock in the morning.[61][62] Reiné had trouble with the dilapidated Ford Mustang when shooting Goss' test drive sequence, saying it would either break down or not start at all on the crew, in which case he "had to push it for the next day".[63] Racing scenes were shot in the cement factory, among two or three other locations.[64] Reiné said the cars on these sequences had to undergo repairs overnight, as they would often break down during the day.[65] Reiné said he resorted to incorporating into the racing sequences 20 percent of the unused second-unit footage from the original film because, unlike Anderson, he had limited time to shoot his own racing scenes, which he shot over the period of one week.[66] Reiné added he was also shooting the crash sequences that same week,[66] during which he was able to wreck and blow up the cars.[67]

Post-production

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Editing lasted nine to ten weeks; Anderson and producers Jeremy Bolt and Paula Wagner oversaw the process.[68] The editors' cut ran two hours and thirty minutes, and Reiné's own cut brought this length down to two hours.[69] Cuts made to the establishing scenes from what was originally an eight- to ten-minute opening sequence set in the prison yard yielded a final cut that runs one hour and forty minutes. Reiné credits the film's condensed version of the opening sequence to editing notes Anderson relayed during post-production.[70] One of the cuts that was kept from editors Radu Ion and Herman P. Koerts's assembly footage was the seduction scene in the prison showers featuring Luke Goss and Lauren Cohan, which Reiné said was "really put together" and worked well together with Goss and Cohan's performances.[71]

Reiné said that while the film contains a total of 700 visual effects shots, these were largely the result of using green-screen compositing and wire removal.[72]

Stunts

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Driving stunts were performed with very little computer-generated imagery (CGI), a decision that was influenced by Reiné's affinity for 1980s action films using this approach.[4]: 5  Likewise, Reiné eschewed stunt doubles in favor of having the actors stage their own fighting,[73][74] which stunt coordinator Adam Horton described as "more street style, it's more rough, it's more cage fighting, UFC, like Pride".[75]

For the police chase sequence, the production was loaned a Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake[76] that had to be returned in pristine condition. To that end, Reiné designed the sequence with the Goss character, unlike the police, not crashing into anything.[77] Goss told Motor Trend he asked Reiné and the producers for permission to let him do most of his driving with the Shelby, proving he could do so by performing Reiné "a J turn and some 360s".[76] In addition to teaching Goss basic lessons on how to drive the Shelby, the stunt drivers disabled its traction control and anti-lock braking systems to accommodate his stunts.[76] On shooting the sequence, Goss stated:

As I brake, I know there's a stunt driver behind me that has to brake. He doesn't know exactly when I'm going to do it because I'm trying to find a line. The stunt driver is driving a police car, so he's chasing me in the story. He needs to get super close but I can't help thinking if I brake too dramatically — bang! I don't want to hit anyone, and not all of our drivers that day were stunt drivers. Some of them were told 'keep your line, don't deviate' so that when I'm trying to find a line through, it wasn't choreographed. It was a little intimidating but a lot of fun.[76]

An AOL Moviefone journalist who served as an extra wrote Robin Shou was nearly killed on set when a rapidly descending metal gangway narrowly missed his head. The extra, Jason Newman, said a miscommunication between Shou and the stunt coordinators on his prison-fight sequence with Hennie Bosman led to the incident. Of this near-death experience, Shou said he "has never been so shaken".[6]

Release

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Universal Pictures released Death Race 2 direct-to-video through its home entertainment division on January 18, 2011,[78] although it set the earliest release date for the UK to December 27, 2010.[4]: 1  Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain R-rated and unrated versions of the film, and bonus material including featurettes on the cars, stunts, and the canonicity of the film; deleted scenes; and a feature-length commentary by the director Roel Reiné.[45][78] Universal released a double-feature collection containing Death Race 2 and Death Race on October 9, 2012.[79] All four films in Universal's Death Race franchise were released in a collection on October 2, 2018.[80]

According to The Numbers, as of June 2024, home-video sales of Death Race 2 in the United States were $8.4 million,[81] with 218,000 ($4.04 million) DVD copies sold in its opening week, making it a decent debut for a straight-to-DVD release. In the same week, 50,000 Blu-ray copies were sold.[82]

Sequel

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Main article: Death Race 3: Inferno
Further information: Death Race (franchise)

The "ardent global following" of Death Race and its prequel sparked Universal's interest on a sequel, Death Race 3: Inferno. Reiné and screenwriter Tony Giglio returned for the sequel, as did Luke Goss, Danny Trejo, Ving Rhames, Fred Koehler, Robin Shou, and Tanit Phoenix, alongside series newcomers Dougray Scott and Hlubi Mboya. Filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in late 2011. Universal 1440 Entertainment released Death Race 3: Inferno direct to video on January 22, 2013.[83][84]

Reception

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The film received generally favorable reviews upon its release.[85] While scoffing at the idea of "prequels to remakes", Salon.com said Death Race 2 is "better than it has any right to be".[13] Cinematical, a now-defunct film blog within AOL Moviefone, wrote: " ... Death Race 2 maintains what made the original enjoyable while still striving to stand on its own two feet",[86] and Arrow in the Head said it "goes through the same action-orientated motions of its predecessor with above average results".[87] Many reviewers said the film is better than Death Race;[a] Dread Central and IGN described it as a worthy prequel that improves upon its Paul W. S. Anderson-directed source material.[9][45] Total Film said the film made his "look like an overlooked cult classic by comparison",[91] and the Daily Mirror said it is "[b]rimming with guns, girls and growling engines" and that car enthusiasts would likely enjoy it more than a wider audience.[92]

According to Winnipeg Free Press: "this movie is no Death Race".[93] Despite the criticism, Screen Daily found the action scenes "nicely staged".[94] The set pieces of "Death Match" received good reviews: Den of Geek considered the fights to be "exhilarating",[5] and according to Total Film, they are among the film's "guiltily enjoyable moments".[91] DVD Verdict found the film "guilty" of "running on empty", and The A.V. Club called it boring and amateurish, and ultimately "a waste of time".[2][95] Other reviewers considered it to be an entertaining, full-bore action film, notwithstanding issues with the narrative in terms of plot, character, and originality;[b] "Between the relentless bloodbath and the thrilling lack of logical consequences, Death Race 2 never fails to astonish and entertain," wrote a 2024 retrospective from SlashFilm.[99]

Critics named Luke Goss, who is known for his supporting roles in Blade II (2002) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), as a worthy successor to the prior film's Jason Statham.[c] Total Film said Goss exudes "a skin-crawling, [Christopher] Walken-esque screen presence" while carrying the film "through its more face-palm moments and its videogame cut-scene narrative";[91] and DVD Talk credited him with "supply[ing] the picture with a minuscule sense of personality" in "a thankless role".[7] Some critics credited Danny Trejo, Ving Rhames, and Sean Bean with keeping the film entertaining.[5][89][96] According to The Record the actors delivered "scenery-chewing turns",[97] and Exclaim! said Trejo and Rhames underused in roles that are "so modest and glazed over".[100] Den of Geek said the film struggles with its treatment of female characters, and that Tanit Phoenix and Lauren Cohan were made to play Goss' love interest and a "ruthlessly ambitious arch bitch" devoid of emotional depth and dignity; according to the reviewer: "I think what's more of a shame, though, is that the female cast wasn't given the same attention as the males".[5] Total Film said the acting is "awful" but that Bean at least "provides welcome respites from all the prison-based dullness".[91] DVD Talk commented the film's goal is to show not acting prowess but bloody violence, guns, and women as sexual objects, citing Cohan's "agonizing, cleavage-popping performance" in a promiscuous role as an example.[7]

Cinematical and Screen Daily called Death Race 2's production values spectacular for a direct-to-video release,[86][94] whereas ComingSoon.net criticized them as shoddy.[101] Exclaim! said: "Visually, Death Race 2 is impressive ... but Reiné relies on too many clichés, such as elongated slow motion and a horrible electronic soundtrack seemingly pulled from a decade-old [The] Matrix clone, which grates more than entertain".[100] ComingSoon.net said Reiné abandoned plot for "tons of flashy slow-motion shots, multiple 360-degree pans and countless 'cool looking' inserts".[101] DVD Talk described Death Race 2 as "a visually stimulating picture that keeps to basic ingredients", praising its stunts, "crisp cinematography", and willingness to fully take advantage of its premise "with a little more spunk" than its predecessor.[7] IGN credited Reiné with making the film look slick and more expensive than its budget suggests on Blu-ray,[45] while HorrorNews.net found the editing "top notch" and the soundtrack "pretty bad ass".[98] Den of Geek said the film "still had moments of unfinished effects ... but, if anything, it added to the B-movie charm",[5] and Fearnet found it "quite a bit better than what normally passes for a 'DTV sequel'".[96]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b While Reiné quoted the film's budget at less than 10 percent of its predecessor,[43] various contemporary sources have reported conflicting estimates: $6 million or less (The Numbers),[43] $7 million (The Hollywood Reporter),[44] and $18 million (IGN).[45]
  2. ^ The other rebuilt car Reiné refers to in the audio commentary as "Big Bill's car" was a Dodge Ram.[42]

Notes

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  1. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[5][7][9][88][89][90]
  2. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[7][9][13][43][96][97][98]
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  67. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 53:47–54:09
  68. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 1:33:11–1:33:36
  69. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 1:36–1:44
  70. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 1:45–2:15
  71. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 35:03–35:38
  72. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 14:24–14:42
  73. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 22:30–22:34
  74. ^ (Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 31:54–32:13
  75. ^ (Horton & Reiné 2010): Event occurs at 4:16–4:22
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