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?

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