Cannonball Run Remake Will Be 'Fast & Furious Meets Ocean's Eleven'

The plannedCannonball Runremake being jell up at Warner Bros. will beFast and the FuriousmeetsOcean ’s 11 , says the motion picture ’s director Rawson Thurber . Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant ( Night at the Museum ) are determine to write the script for the mod - twenty-four hour period update of the wacky 1981 all - whiz action mechanism - funniness about an anarchic fussy - country road airstream .

Burt Reynolds , Roger Moore , Farrah Fawcett , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis Jr. , Jackie Chan and many others provided the asterisk power for the originalCannonball Run , calculate by the legendary film maker / stunt coordinator Hal Needham . Most of the major player come back for the 1984 sequelCannonball Run II , but by the timeCannonball Run III(akaSpeed Zone ) wave around in 1989 most of the stars , the theater director and the vast absolute majority of the serial ' devotee had jumped ship .

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Warner Bros. is now plan to resurrectCannonball Runand director Rawson Thurber , who is presently attach to the project , enjoin we can bear the remake to immix element of racing films and heist movies . Thurber aver in an interview withSlashfilm :

" I believe we ’re live in a post or currentFast and Furiousworld . So I do n’t thinkCannonballcan out - Fast and FurioustheFast and the Furious . That ’s its own affair , but we definitely want to harness that with the fun ofOceans 11and put those together . It ’ll have to be a different affair thanFast , but should have some gravid car legal action , obviously . "

No cast annunciation have been made for the newCannonball Runbut it ’s worth noting that Thurber has a tight relationship withDwayne Johnson , who starred inCentral Intelligencefor the director and is working with Thurber again on the action filmSkyscraper . Landing Johnson as the maven would go a retentive way of life toward securingCannonball Runa raw interview , since most young picture fans are improbable to be aware of the original films ( unless they spend a lot of time with their parents ' old dusty VHS collection).George Clooney and Guy Ritchiewere at one compass point circling the project but apparently both moved on to other try .

The originalCannonball Runmovies may not be considered immense pop culture landmarks today , but the basic premise of the photographic film - a lot of famous player get into all sort of crazy adventures during a grumpy - country race - is the sort of matter that could work again if handled in just the right way . The original movie were comedic of course but the bearing of Needham as director also guaranteed there would be logical stunts and action mechanism along the way . Fusing the profligate - cars fetichism ofFast and the Furious , a serial Needham himself would have been a perfect theatre director for , with the buddy - vicious spirit ofOcean ’s 11sounds like an intriguing way of life to near bringingCannonball Runback to the screen .