Joan Allen is the Baddie in Death Race 2000 remake

by Matt Holmes

Joan Allen who can very soon be seen in The Bourne Ultimatum has accepted the offer of playing the baddie in Paul W.S. Anderson's remake to the cult classic film Death Race 2000. Also joining the cast is Tyrese Gibson from the Transformers. The following comes from Moviehole...

"We start shooting in four weeks time in Montreal. Jason Statham's playing Frankenstein and Machine Gun Joe's played by Tyrese Gibson. And Joan Allen is the big villain baddie of the movie, which I'm very excited about," Anderson told IGN Movies adding, "She's gonna kick Statham's ass!"
In the original movie (which lets be honest with ourselves, it's fun but it's far from good) Sly Stallone played the character of Machine Gun and the awesome David Carradine played Frankenstein. Can't help but feel Joan Allen is a little too good for this material but I guess it's going to be interesting to see her just having fun and playing a baddie for a change. You really have to think though don't ya, when the director has AVP: Alien vs. Predator and Soldier on his resume and the writer has Dead or Alive and Chain Reaction on his, your either being paid a shit load of money or you've gone completely insane to sign up for the role.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.