The world’s hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl. The rules of the Death Race are simple: Win five events, and you’re set free. Lose and you’re road kill splashed across the Internet. International action star Jason Statham leads the action-thriller’s cast as three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames, an ex-con framed for a gruesome murder. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a Death Race crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island’s ruthless Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen): Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson had a singular vision for Death Race, wanting a tough, gritty look for his film. Composer Paul Haslinger's challenge was to come up with something just as uncompromisingly hardcore musically -- a score that would "reek of dirt and sweat, rust and blood" as Anderson put it. Haslinger responded with a rough, hard-edged inventive score -- exactly as the director ordered. It sounds like no other score this summer. Intrada will release the CD to Death Race on August 19. Warning: Put your helmet on before listening to this album.

Death Race from Universal Studios opens August 22. Visit the Death Race site at http://www.deathracemovie.net/

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Originally posted by nuts_score:
Nope . . . not interested in anything to do with this.

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Originally posted by nuts_score:
Nope . . . not interested in anything to do with this.

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Originally posted by sean:

But it's directed by P.T. Anderson! He's incredible, I'll go see anything he does, especially after There Will Be Blood.

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Sean turns to his iPod and plays the THEME from The Apprentice! MONEY-MONEY-MONAAAY!!!

I'm pretty sure that this is the Resident Evil Paul Anderson (W.S.).

I certainly wasn't expecting this from Intrada. Not so much a release of this score, but a release of a score from an impending film.

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Originally posted by SBD:

I'm pretty sure that this is the Resident Evil Paul Anderson (W.S.).

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Yeah right! You're a loser!

Here's a prediction I don't think will truly happen, but what if the film studios strated going to the specialty labels for soundtrack releases exclusively instead of their proprietary labels?

While that would be interesting, it would never happen- Warner Bros. can keep more money in house for The Dark Knight by releasing it on their music label- besides, they have their own in-house music publishing units.

however, on certain occasions where interest would be high, but the soundtrack ancillary market might be shaky ground, a limited run at the time of the film's release through a retailer like Intrada might make sense.

The only question now is if there will be a digital download release as well. I know a lot of people here won't like that, even if they buy this soundtrack, but it would insane for a film company not to at least entertain the possibility of any additional revenue stream.