It looks like director Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil) won’t be getting much sleep for the next 24-plus months.

I don’t know how he’s doing it, but in an interview from the set of RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION, for which he’s forgoing directing duties this time around and merely writing the screenplay, he talked about two of his upcoming projects.

First, it seems he’s returning to the video game world, taking a stab (ha!) at the Konami classic, CASTLEVANIA. Anderson is said to be integrating the origin story of Dracula into Castlevania’s story-line of the Belmont clan. So far all we geeks know about it is that Anderson is writing and directing it, and that Jonathan Frakes is rumored to be attached in the role of ‘Grandfather’— which we can assume means he’ll be playing the patriarch of the vampire-hunting Belmont clan.

And in the same breath, Anderson spoke of tackling another super classic— a reworking of Roger Corman’s cult auto-gore flick DEATH RACE 2000, appropriately retitled DEATH RACE 3000 (well, it is new millennium and all).

Following the trend of reality television a few years into the future, DR3K is intended to be less a satire as the original and more a serious take on where today’s society might be headed.

According to Anderson, he will be producing it along with Paramount, and in conjunction with Tom Crusie’s production company, Cruise/Wagner. No word on whether Cruise will get personally involved and star in DR3K as the ‘net’s rumormill has continued to speculate for the past few years.