"Alien vs. Predator" and "Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson will write and hrlm Paramount's "Deathrace 3000," a remake of the cult Roger Corman pic "Deathrace 2000" reports Variety.

The Paul Bartel-directed original is considered a B-movie classic, a campy and polemical black comedy that pitted David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone in a race where drivers accumulated points for running over pedestrians. Anderson's got a different vision, planning a mix of "Road Warrior" and road kill.

"The original was so much about decimating pedestrians that the actual race was almost irrelevant, and I want to restore that. Set in 2020, ours is an ultraviolent, no-holds-barred race with heavily armed Escalades, Ferraris and Aston Martins" said Anderson.

He is soon set to produce an adaptation of the vidgame "Dead or Alive," which starts production in six weeks. He's also writing a third "Resident Evil" film, and developing Sony's "Man With the Football" but it's expected "Death Race" will go into production sooner rather than later.

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