Death Race 2050 is a 2017 American political satire, action film directed by G.J. Echternkamp and starring Manu Bennett, Marci Miller and Malcolm McDowell. It's a prequel click here to Death Race 2000, which was out in 1975. Both films were made by Roger Corman, who characterized the film as "a car-racing picture with some dark comedy."Death Race 2050's plot?
This is in the year 2050. In the United Corporations of America, which has a problem with overpopulation and an unemployment rate of 99.993 percent, the Death Race serves the dual purpose of providing entertainment and controlling the population. The next round of the Death Race is taking place from Old New York to New Los Angeles, and Frankenstein is the defending champion. Competing against Frankenstein are a genetically modified athlete named Jed Perfectus, a hip-hop star named Minerva Jefferson, a female cultist named Tammy the Terrorist, and a self-driving automobile named ABE that is wicked, black, and artificially intelligent. Each participant in the race is given a proxy, who is a broadcaster who brings the audience into the action via the use of virtual reality. Annie Sullivan, who acts as Frankenstein's surrogate, is instantly offensive to him, and he dismisses both her efforts to interview him and her recommendations that he should let his opponents pass him by.
As the drivers race along the East Coast, Alexis Hamilton's rebels install traps. Tammy and Minerva compete over cult members to murder. ABE malfunctions, kills its proxy, and abandons the race to find its purpose. First, Hamilton instructs her spy Annie to assassinate Frankenstein. She fails to seduce him since he just worries about winning. The Chairman says Frankenstein's longevity is a problem, but Perfectus will urge his devotees to die.
Day two of the marathon passes through the gun-toting heartland. Tammy's suicide bomber kills Minerva's proxy, Chi Wapp. Frankenstein's automobile gets stranded in a cornfield after taking a shortcut. Frankenstein defends against Resistance ninjas while Annie walks off. Annie tells Frankenstein she's a rebel at the second checkpoint. Frankenstein condemns both the rebels and the government, saying he simply wants to win. Minerva tells Annie at a pub that she's an academic who plays a hip-hop stereotype to live. Annie protects Frankenstein from Perfectus, who's envious of his notoriety and sex appeal. Meanwhile, Hamilton and the Chairman are collaborating.
On Day 3 of the race, the government gives the drivers "approved" routes to take so they can avoid attacks from the Resistance. Frankenstein's right arm was hurt when he fought Perfectus, so Annie helps him change gears. Minerva tries to catch Tammy, but Tammy's suicide attempt makes Minerva fall off a cliff. Tammy is happy about Minerva's death until an ABE comes back, hits her against the wall, and then blows itself up. This kills them both. Hamilton and her rebels are killed by Frankenstein and Annie, while Perfectus takes a secret path to the finish line. Both cars try to get ahead until Perfectus loses control of his and crashes into the control booth for virtual reality. Before crossing the finish line, Frankenstein sends a message to his fans suggesting that the Chairman himself is worth 1,000 points. After Frankenstein kills the Chairman, the crowd cheers. He then tells them to stop living in a virtual world and start their own Death Race. As the country falls into violent chaos, Frankenstein and Annie watch from a distance and suggest that they should repopulate the country after the chaos has stopped.
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Death Race 2050 included a who's who of actors.
- Frankenstein, a cybernetic veteran Death Race champion, is played by Manu Bennett.
- Malcolm McDowell in a "slight comb-over" as the Chairman of the United Corporations of America
- Marci Miller as Frankenstein's proxies.
- Jed Perfectus, played by Burt Grinstead, is a genetically modified athlete who believes he is the ideal driver.
- Rapper-turned-racer Minerva Jefferson is played by Folake Olowofoyeku.
- Ramsey plays Tammy "The Terrorist," the head of an extreme religious sect.
- Alexis Hamilton, played by Yancy Butler, is a former TV producer who now leads a resistance group.
- J.B., the male commentator on the Death Race is played by Charlie Farrell.
- Grace Tickle, the female analyst and interviewer on the Death Race, is played by Shanna Olson.
- Leslie Shaw plays Eve Rocket, Perfectus' stand-in.
- ABE (voiced by D.C. Douglas) is a wicked, AI-controlled, self-driving racing automobile.
- Goya Kobashigawa as Minerva's stooge, Chi Wapp.
- Sebastian Llosa plays Steve, a layman who witnesses Annie's VR Death Race.
- As Dr. Creamer, ABE's computer programmer, Helen Loris is cast.
How did Death Race 2050 come to be?
When Corman was being interviewed by an Italian journalist, who said that The Hunger Games was comparable to Death Race 2000, he got the idea for a sequel. Corman approached Universal Pictures, the studio behind the current remake (which he believed omitted too much of the original's political criticism), about bringing back the film's dark satire. "You did a terrific job," Corman said, "but you left out the pedestrian killings and the broken-society themes."
Filming started in Corman's late 80s, amid the 2016 presidential election. It features the UCA Chairman. Corman told an interviewer, "The president's hairstyle could be similar to Trump's, but I don't want to get into that because Trump will come and go and the film will remain."
People seemed to like Death Race 2050.
"Many Death Races for a movie series about them ending. After the late 2000s/early 2010s Death Race trilogy with Jason Statham, Roger Corman returns with Death Race 2050. It was a great sequel to the original Death Race 2000 from the 1970s. A three-day race across a dystopian America, where pedestrian deaths get points for over the top characters! But this time the title has a 50." - Decker Shado
The Making of 2050, The Look of 2050, and Cars!, three behind-the-scenes films, accompanied the DVD and Blu-ray release in the United States. Cars! Cars! Cars!. As of March 20, 2017, it became available in the United Kingdom.
According to RottenTomatoes.com, the film currently has an 88 percent approval rating with an average rating of 6.8/10 based on eight reviews.
Chris Alexander described the movie in an article for ComingSoon.net as "loud, strident, spastic, sadistic, stylish, slipshod, foolish, and brilliant in equal amounts." Film critic Scott Weinberg, writing for the website Nerdist, described the production as "all extremely awkward and rickety and kitschy, but that's just part of the'shaggy dog' appeal of the production." And a review that was published on Screenanarchy.com by Sebastian Zavala said that the film "has enough blood, guts, naive political commentary, scenery chewing, and bad special effects for it to become a cult classic."