CANNONBALL RUN Gets A Reboot Order At Warner Bros.
Who said the era of 80’s revivals was over? Nope, not by a long shot with Deadline bringing their latest exclusive on the forthcoming Cannonball Run reboot with Get Hard and Tropic Thunder scribe Etan J. Cohen writing and directing for the franchise’s new home at Warner Bros. Golden Harvest produced the original comedy trilogy in 1981, inspired by the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash of the 1970’s. The story focused on an illgeal cross-country race and its contestants willing to pull their own dirty tricks to achieve victory, with all three films host to a bevy of popular celebs in some capacity, including Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Roger Moore, Dean Martin to name a few along with Sammy Davis Jr., Dom DeLuise, John Candy and even Jackie Chan during his earlier efforts to crossover from Hong Kong. As a matter of history, the first film which fell to its […]