And, you know, it did kick-start my movie career,” Carradine said. The idea was to do something right away that would create the image of a monster to get rid of the image of that little Chinese guy that I’d been playing for four years. “I started that picture two weeks after I walked off the ‘Kung Fu’ set, and that was essentially my image, the ‘Kung Fu’ character, and a lot of people still believe I’m that guy. The film was destined to become a cult classic, which at the time was made for some $300,000.ĭavid Carradine (1936-2009), who played the leading character “Frankenstein”, an experienced champion driver, was already somewhat famous at that time, previously appearing in TV-series “Kung-Fu”.Īlthough, Carradine himself said at that time that it was “Death Race 2000” that really started his career. In 1975, the already famous B-movie filmmaker Roger Corman produced the film known as “Death Race 2000”, which fits into the description of the previous paragraph. A dystopian future, where a car race across all country requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kills brutality…on-screen entertainment wise – how better can it get?
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