I still find it hard to understand why this movie is being made and how it got any backing, financially or credibility wise. Still, it is being made, and you could put the first down to money, and the second down to…well…money. Dallas the screenplay is well on its way to completion. Personally I couldn’t care less about it, the series was awful and the movie can’t be much better, especially with the tenuous connections made between the two. Cinema Confidential gives us some interesting news from Reuters interview with Robert Harling the screenwriter.
“It’s reinventing the Ewing family as if they existed now in 2006 when the movie comes out,” Harling said, explaining that he did not follow the plots developed over more than a decade in the series, though fans will recognize some things.
“In this story Bobby and Pam meet, fall in love and get married, J.R. and Sue Ellen are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and we have the patriarch Jock and the matriarch Miss Ellie.”
Oh dear. So really the only connection is a family at the head of a business empire? That it? Oh, and the character names. Well I guess that does give it scope to go down the new road of actually being any good.
“They really want the big, all-star, flashy, go-for-it version of the TV series,” Harling said.
Want all you like, but you’ll have to fork out and try and persuade a big all star cast. I’d be interested to see just how all-star they really are. Anybody got any thoughts, or even wishes, on the casting?
