The Longest Yard remake in development from writer of HBO’s Winning Time

Paramount is creating one other remake of The Longest Yard, with Rodney Barnes, author on HBO’s Profitable Time, penning the script.

The Imply Machine is getting again on the sphere… once more. Deadline reviews that Paramount Footage are creating one other remake of The Longest Yard.

The 1974 unique was a jail sports activities comedy starring Burt Reynolds as Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, a former NFL star who’s sentenced to 18 months in Citrus State Jail, the place he recruits a gaggle of prisoners to play soccer towards the guards. The movie included quite a lot of real-life soccer stars, together with Ray Nitschke of the Inexperienced Bay Packers. The 2005 remake amped up the comedy and starred Adam Sandler within the function of the wash-up quarterback, who agrees to assemble a jail crew in trade for a decreased sentence. Burt Reynolds appeared within the remake because the crew’s coach.

The remake starring Adam Sandler wasn’t the one adaptation of The Longest Yard, nor was it the primary. Vinnie Jones took the lead in Imply Machine in 2001, which modified the game from American soccer to Affiliation soccer, and Captain Masr did the identical in 2015. Is the world prepared for extra of The Longest Yard?

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The most recent remake of The Longest Yard shall be scripted by Rodney Barnes, who was an government producer and author on HBO’s Profitable Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. The HBO collection dramatized the skilled and private lives of the Eighties Los Angeles Lakers, chronicling the Showtime period of the basketball crew. Sadly, the collection was cancelled after simply two seasons in September. Profitable Time clearly wasn’t meant to finish so quickly, and the finale included a further scene that tried to carry closure to the story, however collection creator Max Borenstein expressed on X/Twitter that this was “Not the ending that we had in thoughts.“

The Longest Yard remake comes from Gunpowder & Sky, with CEO Van Toffler producing alongside David Gale. Each Toffler and Gale additionally government produced the Adam Sandler model.

Are you down for an additional remake of The Longest Yard? Which model of the film is your favorite?