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Rollerball
Rollerball promotional poster
Directed by	John McTiernan
Produced by	John McTiernan Charles Roven Beau St. Clair
Written by	Larry Ferguson John Pogue
Starring	Chris Klein Jean Reno LL Cool J Rebecca Romijn Naveen Andrews Mike Dopud
Music by	Éric Serra Julianne Jordan Laura Z. Wasserman Alecia Moore/P!nk
Distributed by	United States Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer International Sony Pictures
Release date(s)	February 8, 2002 (USA)
Running time	98 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$70,000,000

Rollerball is a 2002 remake of the 1975 science fiction film of the same name. This updated 'remake' of the film was directed by John McTiernan and has a much greater concentration on action and more muted social and political overtones. Unlike the first film, it takes place in the present rather than a seemingly dystopian future.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Soundtrack 4 Reception 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Plot

It's the year 2005; the new sport of Rollerball is hugely popular in the ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia, Russia, China, Mongolia, and Turkey. Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) invites NHL-hopeful Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) to join him playing for the Zhambel Horsemen, in Kazakhstan. The highly paid Marcus and Jonathan are teamed with low-paid locals, who are routinely severely injured in the game, which is an extraordinarily violent extension of roller derby involving motorcycles, a metal ball, and many trappings of the World Wrestling Federation. Soon the team's star and the darling of promoter Alexi Petrovich (Jean Reno), Jonathan, is thrilled by the high-octane sport, the hype, the sports cars, and female team mate Aurora (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos). But gradually Jonathan discovers that the cynical Alexi and his opportunistic rat Sanjay (Naveen Andrews) will go to any lengths to manipulate the game in order to provide an ever more gory spectacle and improve the game's television ratings.

[edit] Cast

• Chris Klein as Jonathan Cross
• Jean Reno as Alexi Petrovich
• LL Cool J as Marcus Ridley
• Rebecca Romijn as Aurora
• Mike Dopud as Michael 'The Assassin'
• Naveen Andrews as Sanjay
• Oleg Taktarov as Oleg Denekin
• Paul Heyman as Sports Announcer
• Pink as Rock Singer (cameo)

The film features cameo appearances by Slipknot, Shane McMahon, and Pink.

[edit] Soundtrack

The score was released, but the soundtrack was not.

1. "Boom" – P.O.D.
2. "Told You So" – Drowning Pool
3. "Ride" – Beautiful Creatures
4. "Millionaire" – Rappagariya
5. "I Am Hated" – Slipknot
6. "Body Go" – Hardknox
7. "Feel So Numb" – Rob Zombie
8. "Keep Away" – Godsmack
9. "Insane in the Brain" - Sen Dog
10. "Flashpoint" - Fear Factory
11. "When I Come Around" - Green Day
12. "Crawling in the Dark" - Hoobastank
13. "Time To Play" - Pillar
14. "Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)" - Rob Zombie

[edit] Reception

The film was almost universally panned, with review collation website Rotten Tomatoes scoring it at 3%. Time Out's Trevor Johnson described it as "a checklist shaped by a 15-year-old mallrat: thrashing metal track, skateboards, motorbikes, cracked heads and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos with her top off", while Chicago Sun-Times reviewer Roger Ebert called it "an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense".

The film was a box-office flop, earning a worldwide total of $26 million compared to a production budget of $70 million ^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ Box Office Mojo

[edit] External links

• Rollerball at the Internet Movie Database
• Rollerball at Rotten Tomatoes
• Rollerball at Box Office Mojo
• Science Fiction Radio Theater - Rollerball Murder Rollerball Murder Audio Drama

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