Cannonball Run turned 30 years old this week. So for Double Feature Friday, here are ads for the sequels.
Here's the first sequel to Cannonball Run from 1984. Nearly all the main characters returned plus tons of other new celebrity cameos were added.
Here's the unofficial second sequel to Cannonball Run, Speed Zone from 1989. The original title was Cannonball Run III, but it was changed at the last minute. The only character to return in this movie from the first two is The Sheik played by Jamie Farr.
Here's an ad for 1984's Cloak and Dagger. Dabney Coleman plays the dual role of Henry Thomas' father and the imaginary super spy Jack Flack. Jack Flack is from the boy's favorite video game, Cloak and Dagger.
The video game that is central to this movie was based on an actual game. The game itself was in development before the movie and was named Agent X. When production started for the movie the game's gameplay was tweaked and the name was changed to Cloak & Dagger. Screenshots for the video game in the movie came from the arcade version. However, in the movie, the Cloak & Dagger game is a cartridge from the Atari 5200. An Atari 5200 version of the game was planned but never released due to the home video game industry collapse in 1984, right after this movie was released.
Here's probably the ambassador of hip hop movies, Breakin'. This is also one of my favorite movies. I saw this in the theater for my 10th birthday (notice it came out just days before that birthday). This movie and it's sequel really got me into breakdancing.
And because it's so awesome, here's the footage of Jean Claude Van Damme during a beach scene in Breakin'. You can't miss him. He's in the black unitard.
This is a nice ad for Beat Street from 1984. It's a more serious take for the hip hop genre. It stars one of the worst 80s actresses of all time; Rae Dawn Chong.
