Green is partnering with frequent collaborator Brian Sides via their Rough House Pictures banner and Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins for Fuzzy Door Productions (The Orville, Books of Blood).
“When UCP mentioned Smokey and the Banditwe were immediately drawn to it,” Huggins, President of Fuzzy Door, said in a statement.
Smokey and the Bandit was a very cool and irreverent film at the time and we hope to achieve that same feeling in the show.”
“We knew we had to remain faithful to its original setting in the South, and find an authentic voice.