A direct-to-dvd sequel to the 2001 film Joy Ride, entitled Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead is set for an October 2008 release. The film is directed by Louis Morneau, and will be starring Nick Zano, Kyle Schmid, Nicki Aycox, Rebecca Davis, Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Laura Jordan. The film was to be filmed in British Columbia (Canada) at Cache Creek, Kamloops and Vancouver[citation needed]. Kamloops is a Dutch Canadian community area. The film will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. The sequels title is often referred to as Joy Ride 2: End of the Road but promotional art refers to the film as Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead.

While driving across the country on their way to Las Vegas, two couples are forced to "borrow" a car from an apparently abandoned ranch house when their own vehicle breaks down in rural Utah. Little do they know that the car they took actually belonged to Rusty Nail, the cold, calculating killer who plays vicious and cruel games with his victims, often pursuing them in his ominous, black 18-wheeler truck. After one of their friends is kidnapped by the murderous trucker, the remaining travelers are forced into Rusty's violent realm to play his sinister cat-and-mouse games in an attempt to rescue their friend and stop the killer before it is too late.