Craig Brewer has signed a development deal with New Regency to write and direct Mother Trucker derived from a “Maxim” article written by Steven Russell.

Mother Trucker is gauged to be an updated take on Smokey and the Bandit, the classic 1977 Burt Reynolds-Jackie Gleason chase movie that generated two sequels. 

Trucker is an action comedy concerning a man who escapes from jail and steels an 18-wheeler. He drives across the South to see his dying mother with police hot on his trail.