A feature film now in prep & production

Hooters The Movie

It started in Clearwater in 1983 with wings, cold beer, beach-town nerve, and a very good bad idea. Now the orange-and-white legend becomes a big-screen comedy. Mostly true. Entirely outrageous.

  • Script done
  • Director hired
  • Cast assembled
  • Cameras roll Nov 2026

Based on a
true story.
Somewhat.

A shirtless guy with a cigar wades out of the surf, a half-sunk boat painted Hooters II behind him One photo.
Whole vibe.
Clearwater energy, captured.
A Hooters Girl in a catcher's mask and mitt crouches on a ballfield while Phillies players watch from the bench
Spring ball
The six Hooters founders in tuxedos at the bar, a Hooters Girl perched on the counter, 1987
Founders, '87

This is Hooters in one frame

Not polished. Not focus-grouped. Impossible to ignore.

A white boat, orange paint, salt air, and a name big enough to read from shore. This photograph captures the brand’s earliest energy: beach-town boldness, humor before polish, and marketing that would rather make you grin than ask permission.

That’s the spirit of the movie, too. Warm, funny, nostalgic, a little scrappy, and never afraid of orange.

The brand didn’t arrive wearing a suit. It showed up in shorts, carrying wings.

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Reel one: where it all started

1983 to now

The short version of a very long party. A heritage wall, minus the museum with fluorescent lighting.

  1. The original Hooters building in Clearwater, Florida1983

    The doors open

    The first Hooters opens in Clearwater, Florida on October 4. Six founders, no restaurant experience, plenty of nerve.

  2. Framed cover of the 1986 Hooters calendar with the original owl logo1980s

    The idea travels

    The beach-bar formula starts leaving Clearwater: wings, sports on every TV, cold drinks, and orange shorts you can spot from across the parking lot.

  3. Dozens of Hooters Girls in orange tracksuits hold protest signs on the steps of a columned federal building in Washington, D.C.1990s

    Pop culture calls

    The name becomes part restaurant, part sports culture, part American time capsule. Everybody has a Hooters story.

  4. A deployed soldier naps on a wall of sandbags, a Hooters Girls poster propped up beside him2000s

    The legend grows

    Calendars on barracks walls, wings on game day, and an owl that needs no introduction. The beach bar goes national.

  5. 2026

    Roll camera

    Hooters: The Movie moves into prep and production, with cameras rolling this November.

The first Hooters opened in Clearwater on October 4, 1983. Don’t take our word for it: see Hooters’ official history and the Original Hooters saga. Production dates are targets, and we’ll update them as they lock.

Production report Day 1 of ∞

From script to opening night

Where the movie stands right now. We move the board as production does, so check back. Or better yet, join the call sheet.

Prod.Hooters: The Movie
ScenePrep & Production
Take 3 Roll A Date Nov '26

Script, greenlight, and casting: done. Prep: happening right now. Cameras: rolling in November 2026, weather and wing supply permitting.

Scene notes

Tap any strip on the production board to read where that stage stands.

Hull of fame

Paint the boat

Grab the orange can, tag the hull, undo the questionable decisions, and save your finished masterpiece.

Loading the boat…

The sign says it all

Now showingon the letter board

The Original Hooters sign still gets the last word, and it has plenty to say.

The Original Hooters neon sign, reading The Original 1983, with a letter board below