"/webmaster.waroftheworlds.com/click.html?c=ETFYGW"">/www.dreamworksfansite.com/ad/180x135_wotw_tom.gif"" align=""left"" border=""1"">Paramount Pictures is to make Death Race with C/W Productions & Serpent & the Eagle with Ron Howard.

Director Paul Anderson will write and direct Paramount's Deathrace 3000, a remake of the cult Roger Corman pic Deathrace 2000 reports Variety. The original film was black comedy that pitted David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone in a race where drivers accumulated points for running over pedestrians. Anderson's got a different vision, planning a mix of Road Warrior and road kill.

Also, Ron Howard will direct b>Serpent & the Eagle which follows the story of how the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez plundered the Aztec nation aided by an Aztec princess-turned-slave."