Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham and Anil Kapoor will work together for the first time in Abbas Mustan's sequel to Race. John, who was not a part of Race, will play an out and out villain in the film. However, his girlfriend, Bipasha Basu will not be reprising her role in the Race sequel and neither will Katrina. According to the producers, the female leads are yet to be cast.

John has earlier played negative characters in Aitraaz (where he is obsessively in love with Bipasha's character) and Dhoom.