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The story of Smokey and the Bandit centers on the exploits of enigmatic race car driver-turned-smuggler Bandit (Reynolds) and his 28-hour window to transport a truck full of bootlegged Coors beer from Texas to Atlanta, serving as a blocker driving a black Pontiac Trans Am as his partner, Snowman (Jerry Reed), drives the payload-hauling big rig.

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Consequently, Smokey and Star Wars were a kind of cultural yin/yang dynamic for the movie industry that year, with the former initially sized up to become the Southern-fried box office hit of the year on the back of the surging stardom of Burt Reynolds, and its May release facilitated an organic early-summer buildup that made it a drive-in destination, notably since it actually played as a double-feature with Star Wars in many locations.ĭavid Gordon Green Halloween interview: “How do you make Home Alone, but not Home Alone?” By Adam Shepherd It’s a genre taxonomy that certainly applies to the 1977 film, which managed to stealthily reap a $300 million worldwide gross, ranked at #2 in a year that was dominated by the seismic sci-fi zeitgeist upheaval that occurred upon the May release of the original Star Wars, which topped the box office with $503 million worldwide in its first release.

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Indeed, while the television series looks to be a reboot of the traditional Smokey and the Bandit story, it will attempt a bellwether revival of campy drive-in flicks that, while grounded in reality, immersed themselves in over-the-top fun centered on roguish characters. Inspired by the genre of 70s and 80s drive-in double-features, the series explores the crossroads where humble realities meet those larger-than-life, all in a blast of tailpipe exhaust.” “ an epic adventure of family, small-town crime, unlikely heroes, legend and legacy. While no details were divulged, a desire to revive a dwindling cinematic institution is telegraphed with a description that reads: They’ll be joined by executive producers in Green’s cohorts from Rough House Pictures, notably Danny McBride, and Seth MacFarlane via his Fuzzy Door banner. Green will write alongside Brian Sides, a frequent collaborator, who also directs and produces documentary shows such as The Horn and Alaska: The Last Frontier. Smokey and the Bandit, the 1977 comedy classic that cemented the superstardom of the late Burt Reynolds, will soon make an audacious attempt to smuggle itself back into the pop culture picture, with a television series now in the works at Universal Content Productions.ĭavid Gordon Green ( Halloween, The Righteous Gemstones) has been tapped to develop, write, executive-produce and direct the prospective pilot for a new small screen take on the Southern, car-chase-centric, antihero-hailing Universal film franchise on behalf of studio subsidiary UCP.

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