The night before we were to shoot he called me and said, "Mr. I had yet to meet with Gleason prior to shooting. I thought, "What a good idea bootleg a little Coors, get in a truck, lots of fast cars and a lot of cops chasin' em." I said, "What on Earth are you doing?" She said, "Well, you can't buy Coors down here and my boyfriend really likes it, so I was just takin' it home to him." Then she told me the story about how she couldn't buy Coors east of the Mississippi, so I just gave her both cases and said, "Thank you very much." That gave me the idea for Smokey and the Bandit. Finally, I set a trap and caught the maid stealin' my Coors beer. They'd disappear one or two at a time, so I kept replacing them. So I stuffed six bottles in the fridge and went about my business. Can I put a couple cases in your room?" I don't drink beer, but I said OK. Talk to the people and they'll tell you, "Yeah, we used to make a Coors run every weekend across the border." Anyway, the driver captain came down, and he said, "Hey Hal, I bought some Coors. Stories about smuggling Coors beer are legendary. But, apparently, his friends "got down on their knees with tears in their eyes and begged me not to do it.Hal Needham: I was down in Georgia with Burt, working on Gator, and at that time, you could not buy Coors beer east of the Mississippi. "I read it and I said, 'Hal, if you can get somebody to give you the money, I'll star in it and you can direct it,'" the movie star wrote. The idea of smuggling Coors beer across the country sparked Hal's imagination for Smokey and the Bandit, and Burt loved it. īack then, Coors was not available east of the Mississippi River and could only be sold in 11 western states because it didn't have preservatives in it and had to be kept cold, The New York Times reports. Over time, he realized that the driver was "bootlegging" the beer and the maid was stealing it. Hal wrote on Fortunethat he was inspired to pen the film after a driver captain on set of Burt's 1976 movie Gator brought some Coors beer with him from California and asked Hal to hold a few cases of it in his hotel room.
The story goes that Hal approached him with the "script" for the flick, which was handwritten on yellow pads.
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