Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is alleged to be creating a TV collection based mostly on the excessive velocity comedy The Cannonball Run
4 years after bringing the world the excessive velocity comedy traditional Smokey and the Bandit (and three years after their stuntman comedy Hooper and one yr after Smokey and the Bandit II), director Hal Needham and star Burt Reynolds teamed up once more for one more excessive velocity comedy, the goofball ensemble movie The Cannonball Run. The movie was an enormous hit, the sixth highest-grossing home movie of 1981, and it was adopted by a pair of much less profitable sequels, Cannonball Run II (1983) and Velocity Zone (1989). Though the follow-ups aren’t extremely regarded, The Cannonball Run remains to be a well known title, which is why we’ve been listening to rumblings of a remake for years. Now, trade scooper Jeff Sneider of The InSneider studies that Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is prone to be the one to lastly carry The Cannonball Run again to the display screen, as his manufacturing firm, Bosque Ranch, is creating a collection reboot of The Cannonball Run for the Paramount+ streaming service.
As Sneider notes, “The Cannonball Run is the first piece of established I.P. that Sheridan will be adapting for television, where he has made his name with original series such as Yellowstone, 1883, 1923, Tulsa King, Landman, Lioness, Mayor of Kingstown, and Lawmen: Bass Reeves.” Sheridan isn’t identified for doing comedy, so it’s not presently clear if he’ll be sticking with the tone of the unique The Cannonball Run, or if he’s going to take the set-up and ship one thing extra severe with this present.
Right here’s what The Cannonball Run was about: Contestants in a cross-country automobile race from Connecticut to California embrace a speed-loving racing driver disguised as an ambulance driver and his dimwitted sidekick, a pair of Ferrari-driving clergymen, and a James Bond-type character kitted out with secret weapons. Burt Reynolds was joined within the solid by Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, George Furth, Jackie Chan, Michael Hui, Jamie Farr, Mel Tillis, Terry Bradshaw, Adrienne Barbeau, Tara Buckman, Bert Convy, Jack Elam, and lots of extra.
We’ve been listening to speak of a remake since a minimum of 2011, at which era it was mentioned that Man Ritchie wished to make a brand new The Cannonball Run with George Clooney within the lead. We additionally heard that Shawn Levy wished to direct, with Ben Stiller within the lead. Etan Cohen wrote a script and was connected to direct. Then Rawson Marshall Thurber was in talks to direct from a screenplay by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, with the intention being to make the movie a mix of The Quick and the Livid and Ocean’s 11. After that fell by means of, the venture was supplied to Doug Liman, however we by no means heard something extra about it. Now, it has moved from being a movie reboot to a TV collection.
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