Sean Bean has signed on to star in Death Race 2, the prequel to Universal's 2008 explosive action flick starring Jason Statham.

Bean will star opposite Luke Goss in the feature that Universal is releasing under its DVD Originals banner. Roel Reiné is directing, and co-starring with Bean and Goss are Lauren Cohan, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo and Frederick Koehler. Paul W.S. Anderson, who directed in 2008, is producing along with Jeremy Bolt.

The prequel will be the origin story for the character named Frankenstein, a convicted cop killer (Goss) in a declining American empire where a racing reality show is about to be born in the country's corrupt prison system.


Georgine Waller

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