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In 2012, private corporations run the prison system. Getaway driver Carl Lucas works for crime boss Markus Kane. A bank robbery he drives goes wrong: his crew refuses to abort, Lucas shoots a police officer, and he is caught after a high-speed chase. He is sentenced to life on Terminal Island, a for-profit prison owned by Weyland Corporation, where the televised Death Match pits two convicts against each other. September Jones, the disgraced former Miss Universe who hosts it, pressures Lucas to compete. He refuses and defends a fellow inmate, Lists, from an attack. Convinced Lucas will trade what he knows for immunity, Markus orders him killed. September designs a new event: a Death Race, in which armed cars run over three days with freedom for the winner.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Race 2 (2010)
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- Robin Shou was nearly killed while filming his prison fight with Hennie Bosman in Death Race 2, when a rapidly descending metal gangway narrowly missed his head; a miscommunication between the actor and the stunt coordinators caused it.
- The production found almost all of the cars from the original Death Race in the United States and bought them back from the collectors who owned them, rebuilding a missing Dodge Ram and Chrysler from scratch.
- Director Roel Reiné lobbied Universal to shoot Death Race 2 himself instead of working with a studio-hired cinematographer, and South African gaffer John McKay, who lit the film, took the sole "director of photography" credit.
- Luke Goss and Sean Bean were director Roel Reiné's top choices to play Luke and his boss; to land Bean for a direct-to-video film, Reiné had Paul W. S. Anderson ask him, since Bean had appeared in Anderson's directorial debut Shopping.
- Prison scenes were shot in an abandoned cement factory near townships outside Cape Town, and a defunct hospital doubled as the prison clinic despite director Roel Reiné's complaints about its smell of dried human blood on dirty towels.
- Roel Reiné made limited use of CGI for the driving stunts and used no stunt doubles, having the actors stage their own fights; stunt coordinator Adam Horton called the choreography rough, street-style, "cage fighting, UFC, like Pride".
- The production was loaned a Shelby Mustang GT500 Super Snake that had to stay in mint condition, so Roel Reiné had Luke hit nothing in the police chase; Luke Goss won permission to do most of his own driving after proving he could do a J-turn and 360s.
