 The film serves as a prequel to "Death Race" (2008), is followed by a sequel "" (2013) and was released directly to video on 27 December 2010.The film explores the origins of the first "Frankenstein" car driver, Carl "Luke" Lucas (Luke Goss).Alongside Goss, the film also stars Fred Koehler, Tanit Phoenix, Robin Shou, Lauren Cohan, Danny Trejo, Sean Bean as the villain and Ving Rhames.