Rebel Highway was a short-lived revival of American International Pictures created and produced by Lou Arkoff and Debra Hill for the Showtime network in 1994. The concept was a 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a 1990s edge." The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, "what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today? It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off."