Hustle and Flow director Craig Brewer is tackling a literary adaptation as his new project. He’s set to bring Mother Trucker, based on a Maxim magazine article, to the big screen. Good news for us hick flick aficionados, per The Hollywood Reporter: “Pegged as an updated take on Smokey and the Bandit, the classic 1977 Burt Reynolds-Jackie Gleason chase movie that spawned two sequels, Trucker is an action comedy about a man who escapes from jail, steels an 18-wheeler and heads across the South to see his dying mother with police on his trail.” Yeeee-haw!

We’ve had two near-simultaneous volcano movies, two rival Capote movies, and now…two mall cop movies? It’s true: Seth Rogen will be in Austin for the SXSW premiere of Observe and Report. “Written and directed by Jody Hill (Foot Fist Way), Observe stars Rogen as a mall cop who picks a turf battle with local police,” Variety reports. Mr. Rogen, I know Paul Blart – and you, sir, are no Blart!

Broken Lizard auteur Jay Chandrasekhar is set to helm a non-Lizard comedy, Opposites Attract. “Written by Dan Ewen, Opposites is a body-switching comedy involving a young couple who must "walk a mile in each other's shoes" in order to make their relationship work,” THR reports. “Bold and Chandrasekhar are aiming to do an R-rated take on the body-switching genre while looking at the differences between the sexes.” I can see the dick jokes from here!

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