Death Race: Helltrack Uprising (2026)
Starring: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane
The engines roar louder. The carnage cuts deeper. And the world’s most violent competition is about to transform into a spectacle of pure, unrestrained destruction.
Years after escaping the nightmare of Terminal Island’s gladiatorial arenas, Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) has disappeared into the shadows, living under false identities and vowing never to return to the blood-soaked legacy of Frankenstein. But the world has changed — and not for the better. A new corporate alliance now controls the global prison system, turning incarceration into a multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire. Their crown jewel: Death Race, rebuilt from the ground up and now broadcast across continents with an audience numbering in the billions.
Their newest invention is Helltrack, the most elaborate and lethal racecourse ever engineered. Spanning abandoned steel foundries, vertical scrapyard towers, collapsing conveyor bridges, and underground furnace tunnels, Helltrack is a multi-tiered industrial labyrinth loaded with autonomous kill-drones, pressure-triggered saw fields, moving platforms, EMP zones, and walls that literally eat cars alive. Survival isn’t recommended — it’s statistically impossible.
When a political assassination shakes the nation, the new warden — a cold, calculating architect of cruelty who makes her predecessor look merciful — frames Ames as the mastermind. Captured, beaten, and dragged back into the system he fought to destroy, Jensen faces an ultimatum:
Become Frankenstein again… or die nameless in a cell.
Forced behind the legendary chrome mask, Ames reenters the arena as the myth reborn. But this time, his opponents are unlike anything he’s faced. The drivers of Helltrack aren’t just criminals — they’re enhanced combatants, surgically strengthened and cybernetically augmented to turn them into unstoppable weapons on wheels. Each racer is a monster designed by corporate laboratories, bred for violence, and programmed to win at any cost.
Among them is a ghost-like figure known only as “Ghostline,” a silent, enigmatic racer who attacks Ames at every turn. But their clashes reveal something far more disturbing: Ghostline knows who Jensen is. He knows what the corporation is hiding. And he knows the truth behind the assassination — a truth that threatens to ignite a global uprising.
In the chaos, Coach (Ian McShane) steps back into Ames’ life, offering guidance from the pit while battling a system that grows more corrupt with every mile of track. Meanwhile, in the shadows, the supposedly dead Hennessey (Joan Allen) manipulates the boardroom puppets, orchestrating the evolution of Death Race to serve her thirst for vengeance. Her reach is long, her influence lethal, and her hatred for Ames burns hotter than ever.
As the season progresses, Helltrack becomes a warzone. Drivers fall. Machines explode. And every victory reveals another layer of conspiracy — a blueprint of total societal control built on mass entertainment and mechanized slaughter.
With the world watching and corporate mercenaries closing in, Ames realizes the brutal truth:
Death Race has evolved into full-scale warfare — and he may be the only one capable of stopping it.
To expose the system, Jensen must survive the most catastrophic races of his life, outsmart the cyber-racers designed to kill him, uncover Ghostline’s identity, and confront Hennessey once and for all.
From molten steel corridors to sky-bridge death drops, from drone swarms to collapsing scrapyard fortresses, Death Race: Helltrack Uprising (2026) unleashes a relentless symphony of speed, impact, and destruction — a high-octane inferno where engines scream, metal shatters, and freedom is measured in blood.
In this world, the path to liberation isn’t paved with victory — it’s carved through fire, wreckage, and rebellion.