The film has been remade three times: as the 2001 British film Mean Machine (a shortened version of the title used for the original's UK release), starring Vinnie Jones, the 2005 film remake, The Longest Yard featuring Adam Sandler and Reynolds as coach Nate Scarborough, and as the 2015 Egyptian film Captain Masr.
Mean Machine is a 2001 British sports comedy film directed by Barry Skolnick and starring former footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film The Longest Yard, featuring association football rather than American football.
The Longest Yard may refer to: The Longest Yard (1974 film), starring Burt Reynolds. The Longest Yard (2005 film), remake of the 1974 film starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. The Longest Yard (soundtrack), soundtrack for the 2005 remake.
A remake of 1974's The Longest Yard, it stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional quarterback who, in exchange for a reduced prison sentence, is forced to assemble a football team to play against the guards.
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What is The Longest Yard a remake of?
In a remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds film, Sandler played quarterback/prison inmate Paul Crewe alongside a stacked cast of Chris Rock, Nelly, James Cromwell, Tracy Morgan, Terry Crews and even the aforementioned Reynolds.
EXCLUSIVE: The Longest Yard is getting another set of downs. Deadline hears that another remake of the film, which originally starred Burt Reynolds in 1974 and was remade starring Adam Sandler in 2005, is in the works at Paramount Pictures.
It is a slightly updated, but fairly faithful remake of the 1974 film of the same name. This time, we have Adam Sandler who plays the incarcerated quarterback that Burt Reynolds played in the original. Reynolds is on hand to play a minor role which the original film also contained. The plot is still the same.
Although it received mixed reviews, The Longest Yard was the sixteenth highest grossing film at the box office in 1974, taking in more than $10,000,000 in North America. Michael Luciano earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for the picture.
Parents need to know that this film pushes the edges of the PG-13 rating. It features repeated crude language (including one "f--k" and several uses of the "N" word), frequent violence on and off the football field, including one character burning to death in an explosion, beatings and hard tackles…
Parents need to know that The Longest Yard is a 1974 sporting drama set in a prison with very strong language -- including racist and homophobic slurs -- violence, and smoking.
The Longest Yard opened in New York on August 21, 1974. This was followed by a release in Los Angeles on September 25, 1974 followed by a general release in October 1974. The film earned $22 million in North American theatrical rentals. It had admissions in France of 200,738.
Reynolds's casting serves as an interesting Easter egg as he had played Sandler's role in the original. The movie also prominently features ex-football players like Terry Crews and Bill Goldberg. Even musicians like Nelly and pro wrestlers like Dalip Singh Rana and Steve Austin feature in the ensemble.
With the film being released in 2005, the cast would see names including Bill Goldberg, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, and The Great Khali all featured as part of the football teams, with Khali and Goldberg being a part of the cons team, and Austin and Nash being cast as guards.
Peter Segal directed the 2005 remake starring Adam Sandler as the washed-up quarterback who puts together a team in prison in exchange for a reduced sentence. Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly and William Fichtner co-starred along with Reynolds in a different role.
ED GORDON, host: Nelly is the latest rapper to try his hand at acting. He plays a convict in the film "The Longest Yard." The movie is a remake of the 1974 prison football comedy of the same name. This "Longest Yard" also reunites "Saturday Night Live" alums Adam Sandler and Chris Rock.
another major box-office hit with The Longest Yard. The comedy-drama starred Burt Reynolds as Paul Crewe, a former professional quarterback who earns a prison sentence for impulsively destroying his girlfriend's car.
What team did Paul Crewe play for in The Longest Yard?
The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film and a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. Adam Sandler plays the protagonist Paul Crewe, a disgraced former professional quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who is forced to form a team from the prison inmates to play football against their guards.
While Reynolds never married again after divorcing Anderson, he couldn't forget the one love of his life that he never got a chance to make amends with. When asked whether Anderson was the love of his life, he didn't hesitate, saying Sally Field was the only lady who stole his heart.
