HEADED TO DALLAS: Per Variety, 20th Century Fox's big-screen version of CBS' Dallas picking up steam, with John Travolta being eyed to play J.R. Ewing, Jennifer Lopez in the role of Sue Ellen Ewing, Luke Wilson as Bobby Ewing and Shirley MacLaine playing Miss Ellie Ewing.
(from E! Online)
[speechless expression]
It's sounding Pink Panther-ish to me...
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It won't work. Poor casting - big names, but not the right ones in my humble, yet ever-present opinion. :)
Let's see. A Latino, Italian, Southerner, and some old lady living her umpteenth reincarnated life all supposedly playing a family. I don't know folks. Looks to me like we're only a few more minorities away from a Benetton ad! ;) It does seem like kind of a patchwork cast eh? Now I never watched the show, but it seems to me that casting Travolta as JR makes as much sense as it did casting Burt Reynolds to play Boss Hog in the Dukes of Hazzard movie (mind you by all accounts not much to do with that movie made much sense).
I think they've got Travolta in the wrong role. He'd be ok as Cliff Barnes, because he has that goofy quality. I just don't see him as JR - AT ALL. I am stuck on who I'd pick to play JR. It was the career-defining role of Larry Hagman.
I think Matthew McConaughey would make a good Bobby Ewing. He's a Texan and has that sweetness that Bobby needs.
Reading through a couple of boards, the suggestion for Lucy is between Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson.
Sue Ellen suggestions are Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
I guess overall I'm wondering why someone feels the need to make this into a movie. I wish they'd spend more time in Hollywood developing new ideas and new scripts, instead of rehashing classic TV shows.
I'm skeptical...
i'm psyched. travolta can totally do the smarm that jr needs. i like luke wilson for bobby, he's got the charm. and sue ellen, you need someone divalike... and didn't anyone think it was strange that there were no latino characters in a series set in frickin' texas?
wonder why i didn't see this post until today, weird.
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