Smokey and the Bandit tour: all new filming locations; 2024 3rd annual

Our 3rd annual Smokey and the Bandit tour

For 2024 we’ll be visiting all new filming locations. These locations are spread out so we’ll be traveling to get to them. It takes 3 days to hit them all.

We start in Helen Georgia filming in 2 locations there (there’s a 3rd one we missed that day). The pond hopping scene and the road block in Mississippi. Both filmed about a mile from each other.

Next is at the McDonough Georgia square. This was filmed the day before during inaugural Wicked Jeeps poker run. There are several places filmed in McDonough but I only captured the night time infamous breaking the 4th wall scene. This scene is very early in the movie

Final clip is at the ga 400 exit 13 over pass in cumming ga. I filmed this the next day but lost the footage. So I pulled one that I filmed last fall and added it to the clip. They filmed several highway scenes at this section because the highway was just a few years opened and still not heavily travelled. Most of the big highway scenes were filmed here at exit #13

Most of the movie is filmed in and around Jonesboro Ga. We’ve previously done 2 videos in that area so this year I wanted to switch it up and do something different. Unlike the areas filmed in Jonesboro I am not from this part of Georgia so I don’t have as much knowledge of how the movie was filmed here. Since starting these videos I’ve been studying and learning about the movie and has since acquired a lot of knowledge about the filming of this movie.


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00:00 intro
00:42 pond hopping scene
04:00 Mississippi Road block scene
07:04 Hello Smokey, breaking 4th wall scene
08:33 overpass and highway scenes
10:08 outro