Director quits 'Dallas' movie because unhappy with casting choices - Page 2

HWBL · March 31st, 2006, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Mushy

Jason Robards as Jock.

He'd have to come back from the dead. He passed away in 2000!

FierceKiten · March 31st, 2006, 03:01 PM

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Among those actors already on board to play members of the Ewing clan are John Travolta as jr, Jennifer Lopez as Sue Ellen, Luke Wilson as Bobby, and Shirley MacLaine as Miss Ellie.

Well duh, their all aliens.

AliceInWonderland · March 31st, 2006, 03:10 PM

i woulda quit too if JHo was in my movie!

NawdleZouss · March 31st, 2006, 03:24 PM

Is it wrong of me to have immediately thought they were remaking Debbie Does Dallas when I saw the title of this thread?

SVZ · March 31st, 2006, 03:51 PM

i thought that too

blame the generation gap. never seen or heard about 'dallas'

FierceKiten · March 31st, 2006, 03:54 PM

isnt that a porno?

Elisa · March 31st, 2006, 05:03 PM

Wow - with that cast the remake is a train wreck waiting to happen! And why in God's name would they consider the director of stupid kid's movie to remake the hottest show on TV in the early 80s? Come to think of it, why would they remake the show period. Why mess with a good thing? Let it be!

NawdleZouss · March 31st, 2006, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by FierceKiten

isnt that a porno?

Why yes...yes it is.

FierceKiten · March 31st, 2006, 05:15 PM

That name did ring a bell

yoohoo · March 31st, 2006, 05:30 PM

good for him. patrick duffy still looks really good. has anyone seen his new pilates infomercials?

lalala · March 31st, 2006, 07:20 PM

They should make a trashier version, it could be really funny - with Paris Hilton as Lucy, I insist

NurseNoir · March 31st, 2006, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by HWBL

Barbara Bel Geddes only died last year. MANY, MANY years after the show was cancelled. She was only temporarily replaced by another older actress when she was being treated for cancer, but then she returned until the show went off the air.

Aw, damn, I can't believe I wrote that! I've always loved her and know damn well she died more recently. Just thinking about how they cast June Lockhart (or some other equally white bread bore) in her place still steams me.

(Heyyyy... who the hell does June Lockhart think she is, anyway?? She also was the "new" mom on "Lassie" when that goodie-goodie Jon Provost took Jeff's place. That was sick and wrong, too. Yes, I realize no one born after Eisenhower was president will know what I'm talking about. Just an old lady rambling about her cobweb-festooned childhood here... )

Lobelia · March 31st, 2006, 09:56 PM

I don't like Paris as Lucy at all. Lucy was voluptuous, and had fire in her. Paris is stick thin & vapid. If she tried to act fiery & sassy, she would come across as affected.

For the acting perspective of Lucy, I see somebody like a younger Sarah Michelle Gellar, but she's too old now & the look would never be right.

Has anybody mentioned Scarlett Johanson?

darksithbunny · March 31st, 2006, 10:27 PM

Big Dallas fan here too. I don't want them to redo it but if they are, they need to recast the whole damn thing. Everyone they have now just will not work. And someone said Jack Palance as Jock? I believe he is in the great beyond as well so that wouldn't work either.

pattycake · March 31st, 2006, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by aabbcc

I can't picture anyone but Larry Hagman playing J.R. Ewing. Some roles just shouldn't be recast.

I agree! Hollywood should stop doing remakes!