This oughta be remade

Oh dear god don't make this a rip-off of the fast & the furious. Please don't. Please don't use ricers either. That would be just heartbreaking.

Those were some classic cars they had racing. Each one had some guts to it, and wasn't a souped up rice rocket. If you went that route you might as well get vin disel again.

Nowadays, you couldn't get by with a gumball rally realistically, we have helecopters, radar, speed sensing cameras, etc etc. It'd be really boring in civilization, and probably way easier to catch the drivers. It's a dated movie and thus should stay dated. *IF* you did a remake, I'd want it to be set in the 70's still. Get some vintage cars, redo it that way, so you can make consessions to the changing times.

Personally, I'd hate to see a remake.

The Gumball Rally has evolved into today's annual Tire Rack/Car & Driver Cannonball One Lap of America. Google the website. The movie is based on the first five runnings of Brock Yates' Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Trophy Dash in the early '70s. But even from the beginning, the writing was on the wall. Cops were getting radar, Interstates were getting traffic; the thing couldn't go on forever, so Mr. Yates wrote the screenplay for Cannonball Run. Unfortunately, Hal Needham had been on at least one of these runs, and helped out by using his Hollywood connections. So stuntman Hal got to do the car stuff, while his buddy Burt Reynolds got to do the movie stuff (mainly rewriting the script), and eventually it became a Burt Reynolds & Friends farce. So Brock Yates thought it was awful.

Meanwhile, somebody else took the idea and ran with it, and made The Gumball Rally. It's a far superior film for the genre, but Mr. Yates considers it a rip-off, and last I heard, still had refused to see it.

Film-makin', I don't know nuthin' about. But I loved this movie since I was a kid... for the cars, the lack of over-the-top slapstick humor, and the memories of how the highways used to be. One line that dates the movie is when the girls are quizzing: "What's a Smokey?" "Highway Patrol."

If the movie was re-made with modern action and modern moviemakers... it'd be Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. So let's not do it.

Ah, fun. So I'm 10-10 on the side and we'll catch ya on the flip-flop.

"If the movie was re-made with modern action and modern moviemakers... it'd be Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. So let's not do it. "

Hit the nail on the head. Hollywood CANNOT make a remake without perverting it, and their excuse is that they're trying to make it "better" or that they're updating it for today's audience (read: chasing after money).

Remake the movie. Tap Jay Leno as an advisor. Leno has good taste in a variety of automobiles. Hire Rhys Millen and top rally/drifting drivers to stunt drive. Resist the urge to use NASCAR drivers in cameos.

Most importantly, in a movie like this the car is the star. There just isn't enough variety in the original Gumball. I'd like to see cars from nearly every make. I'd like to see rare cars. The cars that I'd really like to see are ones that aren't sold in the United States. If I wanted to see a Ford Mustang, I'd look in any parking lot! If I pay ten bucks to watch cars on film I want to see a Pagani Zonda, Renault Clio V6, or at least a Toyota Sera. I'd like to see a polished Alfa Romeo 8C parked next to a rusty, pinstriped traditional hotrod (aka rat rod). Since the whole race is illegal, I'd like to see as many illegal cars as possible to explore that fantasy. Why not use a real race car like a WRC car?

The movie should not be used for product placement. It should showcase the all of the beautiful cars.

I'd also suggest some changes in the plot. Use the pitstops for driver changes, like a relay race, to keep fresh faces on the screen. Also use those checkpoints to eliminate backmarkers. That would narrow the field down to a "final four".

The race should NOT take place in the 70's. It should take place now. The original Gumball is critical of the 55mph speed limit. The remake should be critical of all of the anti-American/anti-privacy surveillance technology used today. Radar, lidar, red light cameras, black boxes built into cars, cell phone tracking, closed circuit video, facial recognition, even satellite pictures. Greedy red light camera vendor ACS and greedy insurance companies would make good villians. I think the public would be shocked to see just how much money these rackets generate.

Of course the good guys could use cell phones, the internets, the Google, lidar jammers (legally!), and other tools that weren't available in the mid 70's to outsmart Smokey Bear. It CAN be done.