We have to cast the hot chicks with big boobs driving a Lamborghini - I'm thinking Katy Perry and Emily Ratajowski. And what about the rednecks? Clearly, we need Larry the Cable Guy and Mama June.
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Warner Bros To Reboot Cannonball Run
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We have to cast the hot chicks with big boobs driving a Lamborghini - I'm thinking Katy Perry and Emily Ratajowski. And what about the rednecks? Clearly, we need Larry the Cable Guy and Mama June.
I wonder what Mark Blankfield looks like nowadays? I wouldn't mind seeing his take:
Or even Michael Richards, perhaps.
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Fly4v
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At first I thought you have got to be kidding, I'll read the thread just for morbid curiosity and to suffer the pain.
After reading the ideas, I have come to the conclusion that The RPF can actually take a no need reboot and turn it into a good movie.
People here really can turn garbage into gold.
After reading the ideas, I have come to the conclusion that The RPF can actually take a no need reboot and turn it into a good movie.
People here really can turn garbage into gold.
It's just too bad none of the ideas posted here, which I have to admit there were a lot of good ones, will never see the light of day in Hollywood.
KojiroVance
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Alexandra D'Addario. I'd see a CANNONBALL RERUN in a dirty noisy $1 cinema for her.
Oh, that was typo. That worked. Cannonball Rerun. Yeah. The producers should mine this thread for ideas.
Jack Elam -> Michael Richards green light
Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon: hell yeah.
How about Colin Firth as one of the Kingsman doing the Jimmy Bond cameo thing? Film it in NC, he seems to like this area.
Oh, that was typo. That worked. Cannonball Rerun. Yeah. The producers should mine this thread for ideas.
Jack Elam -> Michael Richards green light
Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon: hell yeah.
How about Colin Firth as one of the Kingsman doing the Jimmy Bond cameo thing? Film it in NC, he seems to like this area.
cboath
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Bones_68
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.That's for part II though, isn't it?
Hmm, I could have sworn he was in the first movie. Then again, it's been over 30 years so my marbles are probably only a little less scrambled than the good doctors.
KojiroVance
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As I recall it was based on an actual race that was run a few times.
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Darth Lars
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Gumball has run through Europe a few times, been a nuisance for the traffic cops...
The Cannonball is/was a real race, too. Read up. While I didn't know this back when I saw the first one for the first time, I started reading Car & Driver and learned about it pretty quick. The problem they face -- and probably don't realize -- is that for a casual, cameo-laden farce like the original, it'd have to be a period piece. The last time it was run, it was such a tightly-timed, highly-budgeted, seriously-tuned thing that a single red light or highway slowdown would (and did) scratch it and force a restart. It was also a solo car challenging the record. It's been run enough times over the years that all the fat (and fun) has been trimmed out of it. A modern Cannonball Run would be a serious suspense thriller -- Tom Clancy writes Knight Rider.
--Jonah
--Jonah
If they decide to reuse the Cannonball Run theme (and they SHOULD), it had better be the original Chuck Mangione version, not some reimagined version.
Seriously, that theme was PERFECT.
Seriously, that theme was PERFECT.
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NakedMoleRat
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And since it's from The WB, there will be a Bugs Bunny cameo in it as well.
MooCriket
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"Fast and Furious meets Ocean Eleven"
http://screenrant.com/cannonball-run-remake-fast-furious-oceans-11/
http://screenrant.com/cannonball-run-remake-fast-furious-oceans-11/
Fast & Furious meets Ocean's Eleven? That's already happened. Watch any of the last four F&F movies.
It's like saying "We are envisioning this project as 'James Bond meets Jason Bourne" . . . um, dude, go watch any recent Bond movie.
Prediction: This is Cannonball reboot is gonna be a ripoff of modern F&F, but with a whiter cast, and less/no international Bond super-villain element.
It's like saying "We are envisioning this project as 'James Bond meets Jason Bourne" . . . um, dude, go watch any recent Bond movie.
Prediction: This is Cannonball reboot is gonna be a ripoff of modern F&F, but with a whiter cast, and less/no international Bond super-villain element.
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Between this and the comedy Knight Rider, I'm losing a lot of what niggling shreds of faith I had left in Hollywood's capabilities, beyond a few actual creative types that manage to get good films made amidst this schlock. *sigh*
--Jonah
--Jonah
Riceball
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I really hope that you're kidding because that theme, as recorded, is really dated sounding, there's no way that Warner would reuse the original theme in its original form. Unless it's some sort of period piece set back in the '70s or '80s this theme wouldn't resonate with most audiences now a days and I guaranteed that they'd end up redoing after the first test screening.
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