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Death Race 2008 is a 2008 American science fiction action film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and starring Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, and Max Ryan. It is a remake/prequel to the 1975 film Death Race 2000. The film is set in the year 2012, when America is in economic depression and the government has allowed the prison system to privatize.