![]() ![]() I'm a little torn here - Corman's latter-day output is waaaaay too tongue-in-cheek for me (Yamashita also wrote Sharktopus vs Pteracuda, for instance, yet another basic as hell entry in the funny shark monster genre), but I've met Echternkamp and I think he's actually got the chops to do a real 70s style (ie, funny but not a pandering parody) Corman film. GJ Echternkamp, who previously directed Virtually Heroes for Corman, is helming and Matt Yamashita, who wrote that film, is scripting. Roger Corman has announced that Death Race 2050 is currently in production in Peru. ![]() There was a terrible remake, which dropped the entire conceit of the film - they set the damn thing on a racetrack - but there was never an official follow-up. It's seriously one of the best movies ever, heavy with comedy, violence and angry social messaging. It's set in the (then) future, where a deadly cross-country road race keeps the population glued to their TVs as cartoonish drivers in extraordinary cars splatter pedestrians for points. One of the absolute best Roger Corman films is Death Race 2000, directed by the legendary Paul Bartel and starring David Carradine as the ineffably awesome Frankenstein (and featuring a young Sly Stallone). ![]()
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