The planned Cannonball Run remake being set up at Warner Bros. will be Fast and the Furious meets Ocean’s 11, says the movie’s director Rawson Thurber.
“I think we’re living in a post or current Fast and Furious world. So I don’t think Cannonball can out-Fast and Furious the Fast and the Furious.
Fusing the fast-cars fetishism of Fast and the Furious, a series Needham himself would have been a perfect director for, with the buddy-criminal spirit of Ocean’s 11 sounds like an intriguing way to approach bringing Cannonball Run back to the screen.
Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Chan and many others provided the star power for the original Cannonball Run, directed by the legendary filmmaker/stunt coordinator Hal Needham.