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Much Ado About Dallas
Luke Wilson and Shirley MacLaine are not in the Dallas movie. Luke Wilson and Shirley MacLaine were not in the Dallas movie.
This per the production company behind the planned big-screen version of the leading 1980s prime-time soap.
Amid reports of cast defections, New Regency production president Sanford Panitch said Monday that John Travolta is, and was, the only actor set for a Ewing Stetson.
"We never had an official cast," Panitch said.
And amid reports of a stalled production, Panitch said the movie never had, and still doesn't have, a start date. The general forecast calls for New Regency to get cameras rolling sometime next spring.
Bend It Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha is set to direct; Travolta is set to star as slick oil man J.R. Ewing.
After that?
"Everybody's in the mix," Panitch said. "Technically, we're in development."
Per last Friday's Variety, Wilson and MacLaine were not in the mix, having gone the way of Jennifer Lopez, whose camp declared her "out of Dallas" in August. Wilson was said to have been in line to play J.R.'s good-seed brother, Bobby; MacLaine, J.R.'s long-suffering mother, Miss Ellie; and Lopez, J.R.'s neglected, alcoholic wife, Sue Ellen. The Variety article linked the cast upheaval, in part, to budget cuts.
While acknowledging the budget was being revised downward--Panitch agreed with Variety that the movie will end up costing south of $65 million--the production chief maintained that Wilson, MacLaine and Lopez were not cost-cutting casualties.
"We're still going to approach everybody we like," Panitch said.
Well, maybe not Lopez. "Jennifer kind of went away," as Panitch put it, when original director Robert Luketic left the project last spring due to "creative differences."
Wilson and MacLaine are another story. Panitch sounded especially high on MacLaine, calling her "probably the greatest casting for Miss Ellie."
That said, New Regency doesn't know if Wilson and MacLaine are available in the spring--and for prices the smaller budget will allow.
"We're hoping the script is good enough that it transcends what may be people's quotes," Panitch said.
Minus a couple transcendent moments then, the gist of the Variety-fueled reports could hold: No Wilson and no MacLaine for Dallas.
Janis Burklund, director of the Dallas Film Commission, which has been negotiating with producers to shoot Dallas in its namesake hometown, isn't worried about the project.
"I know [the producers] have challenges," Burklund said. "They have to find a cast and a budget that works for them. But I am still expecting a Dallas movie, and I am still expecting them to be in Dallas."
As for who she'd like to see in the shoes of Bobby, Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen?
Said Burklund with a laugh: "I'm not even going to go there."
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