‘Smokey and the Bandit’ TV Series in the Works From Seth MacFarlane, Danny McBride | Hollywood Reporter:

Smokey and the Bandit rides again.

More than 40 years since the Burt Reynolds feature film launched a franchise, Universal Content Productions is reviving the property for television with a new series in development from some of the biggest names in comedy. A network is not yet attached.

David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Eastbound and Down) and frequent collaborator Brian Sides (Alaska: The Last Frontier) are re-teaming to co-write a new take on the 1977 Southern adventure pic. Fellow Green cohorts Danny McBride, Jody Hill and Brandon James of Rough House Pictures will also exec produce the potential series alongside Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins and their Fuzzy Door banner. Green will also direct the potential pilot.

You know what? I’m not opposed.

Green and McBride helmed an amazing reboot of Halloween, and McFarlane’s effort to reboot Cosmos was pretty great, so I’d say the property is in great hands here.