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TheMovieman 03-15-16 10:28 PM
Cannonball Run Remake
 
Writer/director Etan Cohen has been hired by Warner Brothers to write and direct a remake of CANNONBALL RUN.

The original film and its sequel were directed by legendary stuntman Hal Needham and depicted an "illegal cross-country race where the participants were not above playing dirty tricks on one another."

WB bought the rights to Cannonball Run, as well as all sequels and remakes, from Brock Yates, the Hal Needham Estate and Fortune Star LTD.
http://www.latino-review.com/news/et...cannonball-run


Can a mod add (D: Etan Cohen) to the thread title? Didn't catch he was also going to direct.

Decker 03-15-16 10:59 PM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake
 
Originally Posted by TheMovieman (Post 12752239)

Can a mod add (D: Etan Cohen) to the thread title? Didn't catch he was also going to direct.
Actually, can you just make it (D: E. Cohen) so that it freaks everyone out for a minute?

TomOpus 03-15-16 11:09 PM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake
 
He needs to change his name. I see his name and think Ethan Coen.

islandclaws 03-16-16 11:32 AM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake (D: Etan Cohen)
 
So did Bill Murray, apparently.

dex14 03-16-16 11:41 AM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake (D: Etan Cohen)
 
Originally Posted by islandclaws (Post 12752559)
So did Bill Murray, apparently.
:lol: I posted the same thing this morning, but deleted it. That was for a Joel Cohen.

devilshalo 06-12-17 07:40 PM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake (D: Etan Cohen)
 
‘Cannonball Run’ Reboot Taps ‘Central Intelligence’ Director
Film Reporter Justin Kroll @krolljvar
JUNE 12, 2017 | 03:51PM PT

Warner Bros. is negotiating with “Central Intelligence” director Rawson Thurber to helm a reboot of the “Cannonball Run” franchise.

“Reno 911” stars Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant are also in talks to write the script.

Andre Morgan and Alan Gasmer are producing the movie. Albert S. Ruddy and Raymond Chow are the exec producers.

The original franchise starred Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Roger Moore, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dom DeLuise. The films centered on an illegal cross-country race where the participants played dirty tricks on one another.

The series produced three films, with the first, “The Cannonball Run,” released in 1981 and the most recent, “Speed Zone,” in 1989.

Warner Bros. acquired all sequel and remake rights to the franchise from original copyright owners Brock Yates, the Hal Needham Estate, and Fortune Star LTD.

Thurber recently directed the Dwayne Johnson-Kevin Hart action-comedy “Central Intelligence,” which grossed almost $217 million worldwide on a $50 million budget, and is currently developing Johnson’s “Skyscraper” at Legendary. He is repped by WME and Gretchen Rush.

Lennon and Garant are repped by UTA and Principato-Young Entertainment. The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.

Superman07 06-12-17 09:27 PM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake (D: Etan Cohen)
 
The tone for this needs to be right and I think Central Intelligence would fit well.

So many great cars and celebrities that could fit into this if done well.

E Unit 06-12-17 09:38 PM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake (D: Etan Cohen)
 
Rawson Thurber? The guy who wrote and directed Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story? Screw that Central Intellegence crap. Dodgeball on the road or no sale! That's what this movie needs!

Second thought, we don't need any remakes of this.

TheMovieman 06-04-18 05:35 PM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake
 
Doug Liman Circling Warner Bros’ ‘Cannonball Run’ Re-Ignition

https://deadline.com/2018/06/the-can...os-1202400344/

Brian T 06-05-18 10:55 AM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake
 
Regardless of who ends up directing this, I just hope they remember that the original -- as well as the superior Gumball Rally -- was as much about light comedy and the joy of driving rather than the kinds of physics-defying and implausibly survivable car wrecks that parade across screens with abandon these days.

TheMovieman 06-05-18 11:07 AM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake
 
Originally Posted by Brian T (Post 13346374)
Regardless of who ends up directing this, I just hope they remember that the original -- as well as the superior Gumball Rally -- was as much about light comedy and the joy of driving rather than the kinds of physics-defying and implausibly survivable car wrecks that parade across screens with abandon these days.
That is very unlikely to happen. Not that there's anything wrong with I bolded ;)

Draven 06-05-18 11:15 AM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake
 
This movie is RIPE for a remake. Just include tons of cameos, cool cars, fast driving - it could be fantastic.

Brian T 06-05-18 11:30 AM
Re: Cannonball Run Remake
 
Originally Posted by TheMovieman (Post 13346387)
That is very unlikely to happen. Not that there's anything wrong with I bolded ;)
To be honest, I've already resigned myself to the fact that cars will spin and fly and splinter into a million pieces every five minutes or so in any remake of any of the great chase pictures of the 70's. And there are just so many gems to piss on this way. It's not that the 70's versions didn't have their over-the-top stunts and people walking away from crashes no real human ever would, but there's a concerted effort now to make them exceedingly realistic (CGI or not), which looks awesome, but to the point that I often find myself wondering about the collateral victims in nearly every one of them. It's not enough to have a chase cause a few heavy fender benders or theoretically survivable vehicle flips among innocent commuters along the way; they have to literally crush and/or explode cars and presumably their unwitting drivers out of the way, all without consequence to the plot! :lol:


EDIT: found this compilation of crashes from Cannonballs 1-3 (audio off if you don't like Jerry Reed). Pretty tame by today's standards, admittedly, but still impressive in spots -- and no CG! Obviously the boundaries could be pushed quite a bit further in a remake without resorting to outright unsurvivable Michael Bay-style carnage, but I guess we'll see.

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