Betty Thomas Resurrects Dallas Movie

By Josh Tyler: 2007-08-24 03:11:46

The Dallas movie we’ve been talking about for years now has once again been resurrected. Most of the cast from the last iteration has left, but Variety says John Travolta is still on board and now 20th Century Fox has managed to lasso Betty Thomas into talking to them about directing it.

Gurinder Chadha was the last person attached to direct. You probably remember as the person behind Bend it Like Beckham. She never seemed like a fit for Dallas, Thomas at least makes a little more sense. It is interesting that they’ve gone straight to another female director for the project. There aren’t exactly a lot of them (and more’s the pity), I wonder if it’s intentional?

Betty Thomas is certainly a decent director. She’s made borderline brilliant films like Private Parts as well as studio blockbusters like Doctor Dolittle. She handled Howard Stern, she should have no problem handling J.R.

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Burbanked
August 24, 2007 at 13:47

Thomas is a decent enough director, but going to her for this seemingly doomed - and rightfully so - project is simply lazy on the part of the studio.

How sad is it that a remake director-par-average of The Brady Bunch Movie (fun), I Spy (crap) and Dolittle (money-making-crap) has become the brightest hope for getting a movie project going? With such TV-to-movie properties under her belt, she's a slam-dunk as far as short-sighted studio marketers are concerned. All they're picturing are the trailers shouting "she brought the Brady kids into the 90s..."

The fact is, very few people outside of John Travolta want, care or are clamoring for a Dallas movie. Isn't there a point where Hollywood should realize that something simply isn't working?

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