Oh today is just full of good news!!! The Dukes of Hazzard SHOULD have been an EASY $120 million box office movie. They should have made that much in their sleep. However, after the Dukes of Hazzard opening weekend, word got out REALLY fast about how horrible it was… and the Box office momentum ground to a halt. The movie made about $77 million.
A few weeks back the non-actress Jessica Simpson made some comments about a sequel being in the works that would take the Dukes to London. However, the new word on the street is that the studio and other cast members aren’t interested in doing another Dukes of Hazzard flick. The good folks over at Moviehole give us this:
Johnny Knoxville tells Moviehole that that’s a load of garden soil. In fact, he’s seemingly against a sequel. [Funnily enough, a distributor’s release schedule recently emailed in, show’s a “Jackass 2”, due next year].
Co-star Seann William Scott tells Dark Horizons that he’s not very keen on returning to Hazzard County either. “There’s a lot of hateful people about that film too”, laughs Scott. “It made a lot of money, which is great, but I don’t think well do a sequel for it. The reviews are so bad. I think they’re just psyched they made a bunch of money. They could have had they made a more conscious effort to make it funny throughout the whole film instead of just 20 minutes of funny and then a bunch of cool car stuff”.
Oh yes!!!! Let sanity reign! Could this be the begining? Could this be the sign that MAYBE we are starting to send Hollywood the message that we’re tired of them putting non-actors in leading roles and dishing us “Dude Where’s my Car” humour? And could it be that the studios may actually be listening to us? Maybe not… but this is still the best news I’ve heard all day.
