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.

Actually, can you just make it (D: E. Cohen) so that it freaks everyone out for a minute?

He needs to change his name. I see his name and think Ethan Coen.

So did Bill Murray, apparently.

I posted the same thing this morning, but deleted it. That was for a Joel 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.

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.

Doug Liman Circling Warner Bros’ ‘Cannonball Run’ Re-Ignition

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

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

This movie is RIPE for a remake. Just include tons of cameos, cool cars, fast driving - it could be fantastic.

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!


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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