One day in the late 1970s, when he was at the peak of his fame, Burt Reynolds took a short drive with a couple of friends, the character actors Charles Nelson Reilly and Dom DeLuise. Starting from Italian Farms, his 160-acre ranch outside Jupiter, Florida, Reynolds stopped his Cadillac on Indiantown Road, a single unpaved lane near a truck stop on U.S. Highway 1, and announced that he was going to build a theater on that very spot.