These days all-star car-racing movies are hot again largely thanks to the insanely popular Fast and the Furious franchise, and sure enough Warner Bros. wants to capitalize on this by resurrecting The Cannonball Run and assigning a new director and team of writers to the project.
The Cannonball Run reboot has a direct connection to the originals via Andre Morgan who was an uncredited executive producer on the first film, and received a full executive producer credit on both Cannonball Run II (which memorably featured a post-Oscar Shirley MacLaine) and the final movie in the original trilogy Cannonball Fever.
In order for the new Cannonball Run to be a true revival of the original, the film must boast a genuine all-star cast.
Long time Warner Bros. producer Andre Morgan is producing along with Alan Gasmer of the show Vikings.