Everything We Know About Reba McEntire’s New Movie

Everything We Know About Reba McEntire’s New Movie

By Movieguide® Contributor

Beloved country star and actress Reba McEntire will star in Jon Erwin and Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten’s the Wonder Project’s latest movie THE ALL-GIRL FILLING STATION’S LAST REUNION.

The movie, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Fannie Flagg, follows “Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Ala., who finds herself with time on her hands following her daughter’s marriage.”

The synopsis continues:

The only thing left to contend with is her domineering mother, the formidable 90-year-old Lenore Simmons Krackenberry, who is obsessed with family lineage and Southern heritage. But when Sookie receives a series of mysterious letters that suggest that she’s adopted, she gets sent down a rabbit hole of self-discovery, ultimately uncovering the swashbuckling story of Fritzi Jurdabralinski and her sisters, a daring group of women who ran the first All Girl Filling Station during WWII and ultimately became the first female Air Force pilots.

McEntire expressed her excitement for the project, as well as her love for the story.

“I’ve always been a fan of Fannie Flagg and her writing, and it’s been an honor to call her my friend for the past decade. I cannot wait to work with this incredible team to bring another one of her special stories to life on the big screen,” she said.

“This is not the first Flagg project that McEntire has tried to bring to the screen, though. Back in 2020, McEntire announced that she was working on a television series based on Fried Green Tomatoes with Flagg and legendary producer Norman Lear on board to help,” Southern Living reported. However, it never came to fruition.

THE ALL-GIRL FILLING STATION’S LAST REUNION will be directed by Callie Khouri with Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Bekah Brunstetter writing the script. Khouri, McEntire and Jeremy Latcham for Wonder Project will produce.

Currently, McEntire stars in sitcom HAPPY’S PLACE.

Reba McEntire has been working to get another show on air since REBA ended in 2007. HAPPY’S PLACE picks up after the end of REBA as McEntire’s character, Bobbie inherits her father’s tavern but is brought into business with her half-sister, who she never knew about, who inherits the business as well.

“My [character Bobbie’s] dad was Happy, that was his name, and we owned a tavern called Happy’s Place,” McEntire told People about the plot when the show was first announced. “Well, Happy passed, and so he’s passed the tavern onto me, but there’s a little hiccup involved, so that’s the mystery right there. Everybody has to tune in and watch it, and I hope they love it.”