High-octane director Doug Liman is revving up his engines for a remake of The Cannonball Run.
The director behind Edge of Tomorrow and Mr. and Mrs. Smith is in early talks to direct the modern take on the 1981 comedy hit that was helmed by master stuntman Hal Needham, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The premise involved a group of rule-breaking misfits who form teams in order to compete in a cross-country road race from Connecticut to California.
The initial movie was an all-star endeavor that was toplined by Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Dom DeLuise and a young Jackie ...
The director behind Edge of Tomorrow and Mr. and Mrs. Smith is in early talks to direct the modern take on the 1981 comedy hit that was helmed by master stuntman Hal Needham, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The premise involved a group of rule-breaking misfits who form teams in order to compete in a cross-country road race from Connecticut to California.
The initial movie was an all-star endeavor that was toplined by Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Dom DeLuise and a young Jackie ...
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The new take on The Cannonball Run will be making a few changes...
One of the many remakes the Hollywood is developing is a new take on The Cannonball Run, the series of films that saw assorted famous faces driving cars cross-country, and generating laughs as they did so. The remake to this one is in the hands of director Rawson Marshall Thurber, still perhaps best known for Dodgeball, but also the director behind Central Intelligence and the upcoming Dwayne Johnson vehicle, Skyscraper (that starts filming this month, for a release next summer).
Thurber has been chatting about the direction he’s looking to go with his version of The Cannonball Run, and it’s clear he’s not going for a straight remake. Chatting to Slashfilm he said that “I think we’re living in a post or current Fast & Furious world. So I don’t...
The new take on The Cannonball Run will be making a few changes...
One of the many remakes the Hollywood is developing is a new take on The Cannonball Run, the series of films that saw assorted famous faces driving cars cross-country, and generating laughs as they did so. The remake to this one is in the hands of director Rawson Marshall Thurber, still perhaps best known for Dodgeball, but also the director behind Central Intelligence and the upcoming Dwayne Johnson vehicle, Skyscraper (that starts filming this month, for a release next summer).
Thurber has been chatting about the direction he’s looking to go with his version of The Cannonball Run, and it’s clear he’s not going for a straight remake. Chatting to Slashfilm he said that “I think we’re living in a post or current Fast & Furious world. So I don’t...
- 8/6/2017
- Den of Geek
Just several months ago we were reminded that Warner Bros. was still working away at getting a remake of The Cannonball Run off the ground when it was revealed that they were in negotiations with Rawson Marshall Thurber (We're The Millers) to direct the film and Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant to pen the script. The original 1981 film featured an ensemble of 80's... Read More...
- 8/5/2017
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Writer/Director Rawson Marshall Thurber was on a Television Critics Association panel for his new YouTube comedy series Ryan Hanson Solves Crimes on Television. After the panel, he spoke with /Film about his upcoming film projects. He’ll make Skyscraper with Dwayne Johnson next, but he’s still attached to a remake of The Cannonball Run. “Cannonball is about to be […]
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- 8/4/2017
- by Fred Topel
- Slash Film
After directing the Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy “Get Hard” for Warner Bros., Etan Cohen has been set to write and direct “Cannonball,” a new riff on the popular “Cannonball Run” franchise that starred Burt Reynolds, an individual with knowledge of the project has told TheWrap. Andre Morgan is producing with Alan Gasmer, while Albert S. Ruddy and Raymond Chow will serve as executive producers. While 20th Century Fox released the first “Cannonball Run” movie, which chronicled an illegal cross-country race where the participants weren’t afraid to cheat or play dirty. Also Read: Will Smith, Joel Edgerton to...
- 3/15/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Warner Bros has acquired the rights to the Cannonball Run franchise and set Tropic Thunder scribe Etan J. Cohen to write and direct Cannonball. Andre Morgan and Alan Gasmer (Vikings) are producing. The studio isn’t calling this a remake but rather a relaunch of a film based on the famous “Cannonball sea to shining sea memorial trophy race” that was captured in three Hal Needham-directed films that starred Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Roger Moore, Dean Martin…...
- 3/15/2016
- Deadline
I was wondering for quite a while now, what is it with all the remakes and recycled stories, given that barely anything new has come out from Hollywood’s ‘oven’ recently (and not-so-recently). Example – and one that I personally could think of easily – after the original one (speaking about Hollywood – there are even [...]
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- 4/12/2012
- by Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Young Tim Roth got Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Hit (1984). He played an apprentice hit man in Stephen Frears suspenseful, compact crime-thriller, starring Terence Stamp and John Hurt. Now, director Stephen Frears is reuniting with screenwriter Peter Prince and producer Jeremy Thomas for a remake of this British gangster flick. [...]
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- 12/14/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
So, we all know that Steven Soderbergh is no longer attached to direct The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and I guess we’re now alright with that decision? Ok then, let’s move on with some fresh news about the whole thing. According to the latest reports, Guy Ritchie and his new partner Lionel Wigram are now on [...]
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- 12/8/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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