Warner Bros. has been quietly revving up the engines to get a “Cannonball Run” remake/reboot off the ground for a while now. Back in the day, General Motors was apparently willing to lend a vehicular hand with the project, and directors like Guy Ritchie and Shawn Levy were kicking the tires. Nothing happened and the project seemingly ran out of gas, but how things are humming along again.
Deadline reports that the studio are now turning to Etan Cohen to write and direct the redo of the comedy flick your dad loves starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Roger Moore, Dean Martin and a million other actors and actresses. Cohen is the writer behind “Tropic Thunder,” “Idiocracy” and “Men In Black 3” who made his directorial debut last year with the mostly critically derided Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart vehicle “Get Hard.”
The studio is calling this project a “relaunch” of the franchise that across three films brought together car crashes, comedy and celebrities. The formula isn’t exactly brain surgery, and hey, maybe your dad will dig this new version too.
