When people ask me what my favorite movie is, I often say, only half-joking, “Anything with Burt Reynolds in it.” The exception to that might be 2005’s The Dukes of Hazzard, co-starring Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott. While the movie might not be Reynolds’ best, the behind-the-scenes story told by director Jay Chandrasekhar, whose new movie Super Troopers 3 drops this week on the 2026 movie schedule, is pure, macho, Burt. And of course it involves a near fistfight.
Chandrasekhar sat down with Jay Mohr this week on Mohr’s podcast, Mohr Stories, and talked at length about the ‘70s and ‘80s superstar who was known for doing his own stunts. Reynolds, who played Boss Hog in the movie, didn’t really seem all that invested in the project, according to the director. In fact, Chandrasekhar is “pretty sure” the Boogie Nights star (another movie Reynolds hated) hadn’t even read the script when filming started. Things only got worse from there.
