An article claiming that a new Smokey & The Bandit sequel was in the works has gone viral on Facebook. At first we chose to ignore it, but after seeing many of our favorite trucking pages sharing the story as news, we decided that it was our duty to shed some light on the truth.
And the truth is: the story is completely fake.
The story was published by a “parody” move review website earlier this week and has already racked up more than 7,000 shares on Facebook. The fake-news story claimed that a new movie titled “Smokey and the Bandit Rides Again” would be released in December 2017 and would feature Joaquin Phonex as the Bandit and Aston Kutcher as Cletus.
Perhaps equally outrageous as Kutcher playing Cletus, was the hilariously fake synopsis:
“The Bandit agrees to come out of retirement to help his friend Cletus ferry a truckload of illegal Mexican immigrants across the border and through Arizona. Sheriff Buford T. Justice (John Goodman), however, knows that they are coming and when a runaway nun, Carrie (Elizabeth Olsen), hitches a ride all sorts of thrills and spills, chases and crashes and mishaps are promised… nay guaranteed!”
In short the answer is a big NOPE. Bandit and Cletus are definitely NOT coming back to the big screen to smuggle some illegal Mexican immigrants across the border.