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Seann William Scott, who had a hard time mastering parking logistics in Dude, Where's My Car?, will share driving duties with Jackass Johnny Knoxville in the planned big-screen rendering of The Dukes of Hazzard, People magazine says.
A spokesman for Warner Bros., a corporate cousin of People in the Time Warner clan, could not confirm the reported hires. The film, still minus an announced director and cast, is nonetheless slated to speed into production in mid-November, the studio says.
According to People, Scott, 27, will play Bo Duke, aka the one with blond hair (actor John Schneider in the 1979-85 Dukes TV series); Knoxville, 33, will play Luke Duke, aka the one with brown hair (Tom Wopat in the TV show).
Jay Chandrasekhar of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, makers of Super Troopers, et al., reportedly is in line to direct.
At this point, screenwriters Jonathan Davis and John O'Brien are the only official Dukes boys. O'Brien cowrote Warners' most recent TV-to-film transformation, Starsky & Hutch. Any resemblance between Dukes and S&H, which grossed $88 million at the box office last spring, likely will be encouraged.
Though Jessica Simpson was said to have nabbed the plum, if drafty role of shorty-shorts devotee Daisy Duke earlier this year, the part remains up for grabs.
Simpson is in the running, though. She told Access Hollywood that a recent audition "went amazing."
"I actually wore a short skirt, not shorts," the risk-taking singer-actress-famous person shared with the TV show.
Others whose names have been in the Daisy Duke mix: Jessica Biel, Elisha Cuthbert and Mandy Moore.
Britney Spears, a real-life shorty-shorts devotee, was the reputed frontrunner to succeed Catherine Bach (news) (TV's Daisy) when news of the movie first surfaced last year. But that was one marriage, one annulment, one engagement, two future step-children and one entirely different image ago.
Paul Walker, who raced cars in The Fast and the Furious, and Ashton Kutcher, Scott's Dude costar, were the original picks for Bo and Luke Duke, respectively--at least according to circa 2003 buzz dismissed by Warners.
In addition to Dude, Scott has goofed in the American Pie trilogy. Knoxville has appeared in Walking Tall and Men in Black II, among other films, after finding fame for doing unwise things on Jackass, his MTV stunt show.
No word on a storyline for the big-screen Dukes. Suffice to say the TV series rarely deviated from the following plot: Bo, Luke and their Dodge Charger, known as the General Lee, get chased all over Hazzard County by the lackeys of Boss Hogg (the late Sorrell Booke).
Burt Reynolds is the "top choice" to play big-screen Hogg, People says.
Presumably, the fender-bending production is after Reynolds for his expertise in car-chase movies (Smokey and the Bandit, et al.)--and not his MAACO connection.
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who had a hard time mastering parking logistics in Dude, Where's My Car?,
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Originally posted by: Regicidal_Maniac
On to the politically incorrect version of Dukes Of Hazzard, I hope it is. I'd hate to think that the moral crusaders have won and the 70 percent of us who live in fear of that outspoken 30 percent have lost our right to enjoy whatever the Hell we like just because some sour-mouthed, horn-rimmed glasses wearing spinsters and Jesus-freaks disagree with it.
If they don't like something they can turn away but enough of this 'worrying about upsetting the conservatives' crap.
Rant off.
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Originally posted by: WarblerQuote
Originally posted by: Regicidal_Maniac
On to the politically incorrect version of Dukes Of Hazzard, I hope it is. I'd hate to think that the moral crusaders have won and the 70 percent of us who live in fear of that outspoken 30 percent have lost our right to enjoy whatever the shell we like just because some sour-mouthed, horn-rimmed glasses wearing spinsters disagree with it.
Rant off.
its not the conservatives that are going to be upset it's the African American groups that will be offended. To them(and I can't say I blame them), the rebel flag stands for slavery. And from their point of view(again I can't say I blame them) General Lee lead the fight to try to preserve slavery. At the time the show was on it was acceptable, but in our more politically correct age I don't think it will be quite as acceptable.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The Rebel flag doesn't stand for slavery. Slavery wasn't even the main issue of the American Civil War. Now don't get me wrong, I don't agree with slavery, but complaining about a Rebel Flag on a car is stupid.
Besides; The rebel flag is just a cool design.
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
i have a feeling this will be another Starsky and Hutch...
its obviously gonna be a comedy too...
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why do all these remakes end up as comedies?
dont you think it would be nice to have a remake which is more fitting with the original show....
ie. Adams Family, Starsky and Hutch, The Flinstones....
i think lost in space is the only real example of a serious film...
but i never saw it so im not positive
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The main issue of the Civil War was states rights
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
but there were others, including the tarrif.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
And the Rebel flag has nothing to do with slavery. When I see a Rebel flag, hate for black people or a desire to enslave them is not what comes to mind, and if that's what people think it means, then they don't understand the average southerner.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.