Death Race 2
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| Directed by | Roel Reiné |
| Produced by |
Paul W. S. Anderson Jeremy Bolt Mike Elliott |
| Screenplay by | Tony Giglio |
| Story by | Paul W. S. Anderson Tony Giglio |
| Starring |
Luke Goss Fred Koehler Tanit Phoenix Robin Shou Lauren Cohan Danny Trejo Ving Rhames Sean Bean |
| Music by | Paul Haslinger |
| Cinematography | John Mckay |
| Edited by | Radu Ion Herman P. Koerts |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Death Race 2 (previously titled Death Race: Frankenstein Lives or Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives) is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Roel Reiné, written by Tony Giglio and Paul W. S. Anderson. The film is a prequel to the 2008 film Death Race and was released DVD on 27 December 2010. The film is followed by a sequel, Death Race 3: Inferno (2013).
The film explore the origins of the first "Frankenstein" car driver, Carl "Luke" Lucas (Luke Goss). Alongside Goss, the film also stars Fred Koehler, Tanit Phoenix, Robin Shou, Lauren Cohan, Danny Trejo, Sean Bean as the villain and Ving Rhames. A direct-to-video film, it received general negative critical reaction.
Getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas (Luke Goss) is arrested after a robbery for his crime boss Markus Kane (Sean Bean) goes wrong. As his accomplices are robbing the bank, two officers casually enter the building. Luke tells them to abort, but they refuse; Luke intervenes, but it results in the death of one of the three accomplices. Luke shoots and kills one of the officers and dumps off his accomplices in order to fulfill Markus's wishes. In doing so, Luke is eventually captured by the police following a high-speed chase and sentenced in prison. Six months later, Luke is transferred to Terminal Island.
Terminal Island is a prison under the control of The Weyland Corporation, which hosts Death Match, a televised pay-per-view competition where two dangerous convicts are chosen and then forced to fight to the death or submission. The prisoners are given access to weapons or defense items to use during the fight by stepping on a marked plate in the arena. Luke meets the men who eventually become his pit crew in the Death Race: Lists (Frederick Koehler), who annoys him by over-analyzing everything, Goldberg (Danny Trejo), and Rocco (Joe Vaz). The host of Death Match is September Jones (Lauren Cohan), a former Miss Universe who lost her crown due to allegations of having a sexual relationship with all of its judges. She now works for The Weyland Corporation to create profit from the pay per view subscribers of Death Match. When a convict tries to stab Lists (because of his nature and weakness, as he was convicted only of swindling), Luke takes it upon himself to defend him.
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