Will Smith & Kevin Hart To Star In Planes, Trains & Automobiles Remake

Deadline is reporting that Will Smith and Kevin Hart will star in Paramount Pictures’ remake of the 1987 classic road trip comedy film Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

The remake will be penned by Brooklyn Nine-Nine writer Aeysha Carr. On top of starring, Smith and Hart are also expected to serve as producers through their Westbrook Studios and Hartbeat Productions banners, respectively. Westbrook’s Jon Mone and Hartbeat’s Bryan Smiley are also set to produce.

The original Planes, Trains & Automobiles film was written and directed by John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club). Comedy icons Steve Martin and the late John Candy starred as Neal Page and Del Griffith, who were forced to travel together and become bunkmates in order to get home in time for Thanksgiving after their flights were suddenly cancelled. Along their three-day travel, the unlikely duo get themselves into a lot of embarrassing mishaps. After its release in 1987, the film was immediately met with positive reviews and has become one of the greatest comedy films to date.

Carr most recently executive produced the upcoming Hulu series Woke, which premieres in September starring New Girl’s Lamorne Morris and SNL‘s Sasheer Zamata. She wrote episodes and became a supervising producer on Brooklyn 99 and was a writer on Rel, The Carmichael Show, Mixology, Everybody Hates Chris, and My Wife and Kids.