Cannonball Run Pit Stop chatted to Albert S. Ruddy, producer of the Burt Reynolds classic, about, well, everything and anything and a few juicy tidbits were revealed along the way.

"Megaforce" remake

Ruddy says "South Park" creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone have approached him about remaking Hal Needham's 1982 sci-fi/actioner. 'Im serious. I'm at a a party and these two guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the "South Park" guys, come up to me and say "You did my favorite movie" and I'm thinking oh yeah,here comes "The Godfather" again, and they say, "Megaforce". I said "You guys haven't been smoking anything have you?", and they said "No!" They thought the camp quality was so great. They fell in love with the movie. Anyway, it's great working with Hal. He can do everyone's job better than they can.'

Raging Fury

Ruddy mentions that he's working with Jet Li on an action film called "Raging Fury" soon. The producer of course worked with Li on the upcoming "The Warlords... a 33 million dollar movie which became the highest grossing movie in Chinese history"

Cannonball Run

Ruddy would love to remake the film. ''We'd like to do another one, but the rights get very convoluted as you can imagine. Raymond Chow sold his library to 20th Century Fox for a fortune, so getting a chain of title is a lot more complex than it used to be. If we can work it all out, than we can do another one.'' And needless to say, Reynolds would be involved. ''We'd have to put Burt in somewhere, like when we did "The Longest Yard" (remake). We'd try to get as many of the other guys as we could. I mean, Jamie Farr was funny. When he says "Get a physical"to the waitress in the first "Cannonball"...hilarious!''

Remembering Mark Twain

Ruddy, who produced Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby", will reunite with the filmmaker on another pic next year. ''I'm doing another movie with Clint in the spring called "Remembering Mark Twain". He's directing the movie, and he's gonna bookend the movie playing Samuel Clemens in the hospital. It's a really sweet, beautiful movie. So that's what I'm all about!''