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Who gets J.R. in new ‘Dallas’ movie?

25.03.05 11.20am

NEW YORK - When hair was big, and big oil was brash and unbowed by scandal, "Dallas" was the world’s favourite soap opera.

Now the 1980s story of the Ewing family and their Texas oil empire is coming to the big screen, updated to the present day with an all-star cast. Instead of "Who shot J.R.?" the mystery now is who will play J.R., the devious oil man with a glint in his eye and a cowboy hat setting off his business suits.

"Wealth and power, greed and corruption in Texas - it’s a very pertinent topic," screenwriter Robert Harling said in an interview shortly after turning in his script to "Legally Blonde" director Robert Luketic who will direct the film.

The author of "Steel Magnolias," who also wrote the screenplay for the 1996 comedy "The First Wives Club," has been working for 18 months on the "Dallas" script which takes the original characters from the pilot of the 1978-1991 series.

"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.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1...jectID=10117094

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  • 3 weeks later...

this is one of the things that added to my unpopularity in the office: when people would hang out on coffee breaks and talk about 'dallas,' something i never watched. *proud*

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