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Tom Cruise to produce action flick in Montreal
canada.com


Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Hollywood heavyweight Tom Cruise and action star Jason Statham are coming to Montreal.

Statham will star in Death Race 3000, which Cruise and his partner Paula Wagner will co-produce. The big-budget action flick for Universal is a remake of 1975�s Death Race 2000 starring Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine.

Filming is expected to begin this summer. It is not known how much time Cruise will spend in Montreal.

Death Race 3000 will be directed by British-born Paul W. S. Anderson, whose credits include Resident Evil and Alien vs. Predator, using a script he co-wrote with J.F. Lawton (Under Siege).

In the movie, set in 2020, dangerous convicts imprisoned at Terminal Island race each other in customized vehicles armed with weapons for a television audience. Five wins earns a prisoner his freedom.

When fan-favourite Frankenstein is killed after winning his fourth race, the warden enlists a man framed for his wife�s murder to assume Frankenstein�s identity. All he needs to do is win one race to get out of prison.

The original Death Race followed a cross-country race where drivers collected points for running down pedestrians.

Death Race 3000 is not the only big-budget movie filming in Montreal this summer. Brendan Fraser, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh will be in the city for The Mummy 3: Curse of the Dragon.

Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson may also spend a few weeks in Montreal this summer shooting scenes for the big-screen version of Get Smart. The Pink Panther 2, starring Steve Martin and Kevin Kline, is also rumoured to be looking at Montreal.

The city recently hosted Kate Beckinsale and Tom Skerritt, who were shooting scenes for Whiteout