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Ah, you just had to see it coming. I've known about this for a while, but this is new casting news.

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Dude, where's the General Lee?

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.


I like this casting better than the Kutcher/Walker pairing. I'd like to see Cuthbert as Daisy (I'm sure Jimbo would, too). And I pray Reynolds is cast. That would be so Reynolds (vague Jason Lee reference).
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who had a hard time mastering parking logistics in Dude, Where's My Car?,

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I'm affraid this movie will have alot of backlash. The two heros driving around in a car named the General Lee? and painted of top of the car? a rebel flag. talk about being politically incorrect.
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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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I really liked Starsky & Hutch I thought it was a perfectly funny and irreverent film while at the same time still staying somewhat true to the source material.

Lost In Space was good but belongs in the guilty pleasures thread as the release version is deeply flawed.

Mark Goddard's cameo was great and a good role well played. I met him and he was a nice guy so I was happy to see him get a part with meat. It would have been nice if the father of Matt LeBlanc's Don West had been a photo of Guy Williams.

I feel that LIS had some wasted cameos early on. Like for instance June Lockhart as the school principal, she should have been the grandmother who was not fit enough to make the journey and that they had to say goodbye to. It would have been a nice moment.

Angela Cartwright and Marta Kristen were absolutely wasted having both as reporters at the press conference and would have been much better if at least one of them was a technician on the building of the Jupiter 2.

Now the biggest gripe. There were two cameo opportunities that were totally missed towards the end and that's Billy Mumy and Jonathan Harris who should by rights have been the older versions of Will Robinson and Dr Zachary Smith.

They tried to get Harris to cameo as the guy who sends Oldman on his siditious mission but he said he would accept nothing less than Smith himself. Well this would have been a perfect way to fix that issue.

As it is it's an enjoyable film until you think about what it could have been, and where's the damned sequel already?

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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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Goebbels.

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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.


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.

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Point well taken, however I don't feel that the show ever took sides on the issue of slavery.

The rebel flag may well have some powerful meaning to 'rednecks' in 'the south' and will no doubt be read that way by kneejerkers but I feel that its use was in an ironic context on the show and that will certainly be the context within the new film.

I hate ALL kinds of revisionism and that includes censorship of the 'blackface' gags in Tom & Jerry cartoons through to Holocaust denial and on to Greedo shooting first.

[Rafiki hits Simba on the head with his stick]
Simba : Oww. Jeez... What was that for?
Rafiki : It doesn't matter, it's in the past.
Simba : Yeah, but it still hurts.
Rafiki : Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
[swings his stick at Simba again who ducks out of the way]
Rafiki : Ha. You See?

But you can't CHANGE the past, so don't try.
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Goering.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Goebbels.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - Orwell.
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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.


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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I would've rather seen a criss-cross on the casting: why not a Knoxville/ Walker pairing? Scott's just too goofy to be one of the Duke boys. And I'd rather see Biel as Daisy; she was always the smart character who helped the boys out when they were in too deep. I don't see Elisha Cuthbert or Jessica Simson pulling that off. If they're going to use one of the Simpson sisters, they should go with Ashley; she can actually act.

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You know, Jessica Simposon must have a major inferiority complex with half the world calling her stupid. And I've never really seen her act, so I couldn't say that either way. But about the casting:

WHY Johnny Knoxville? Is he notthe master idiot from MTV's Jack@ss???

I bet my SE VHS tapes this movie will be a disaster.

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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.


that may be your take on it, but I assure you there are many,many people who believe the rebel flag does stand for slavery and those people might be offended by its use in the movie. And I don't want this to go off in a tangent but slavery definitely was the main issue of the war between the states. It may not have been the only issue but, it was the main one.

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The main issue of the Civil War was states rights, the degree to which the federal government could boss the states around. The right to make slavery laws was one of the issues, but there were others, including the tarrif. The main cause was sectionalism: that is that parts of the country considerd themselves more important than the nation as a whole. Had slavery been the only issue, the War probably wouln't have been fought till much later in our history. After the war had allready broke out, Lincoln shifted the main issue to slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation, which had absolutely no physical effect on the Southern slaves until after the war. Again, I don't belive slavery is right. But I refuse to bow to the politically correct PoV just becasue it's expected.

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.

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i have a feeling this will be another Starsky and Hutch...
its obviously gonna be a comedy too...
.
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


You forgot Dragnet. The series was a crime drama, but the movie was hilarious.

I loved The Beverly Hillbillies, but thought the movie blew chunks.

There's one thing they have in common, though. At least one person from "Starsky & Hutch" and each of these other two series' made a guest appearance on their movie versions.
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ok, this is my last post on this issue.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The main issue of the Civil War was states rights


and why do you think that was the issue? Because the southern states didn't want the national government outlawing slavery. They wanted to be able decide the issue of slavery for themselves.

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but there were others, including the tarrif.


I agree, there were other issues.


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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.



you keep missing my point. I'll not talking about what you think the rebel flag stands for. I'm talking about what other people (African Americans for example) think that flag stands for. And when they see it flying over government buildings, they get offended. Wrong or right, they still get offended. And I think a simular thing could happen with this movie.





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sitcom movies never end whats next friends: the movie
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cringe...
lol

regardless of what the issues were with the confederate flag....
it was in the show... therefore if they're going to remake it, why change anything?

I find it to be a stupid choice... thats just my personal opinion though..
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Which is MY point. It is stupid to bow down to political correctness just because some white-hating blacks get offended by a symbol that only means something sinister to a small minority of drunken hillbillies.

So it is dumb to change something to be politically correct. Like Greedo shooting first.

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I agree with what's being said regarding sensitivity towards the Confederate flag. However, there is a way around it. Treat this movie the same way that Starsky & Hutch was done. Set it in the 70s when the the show actually was taped. That would allow for a little greater level of tolerance to personal ignorance. People in the late 80s, 90s, and today are expected to know better. The 70s on the other hand...

Gundark, I, too, would like to see Biel, but I don't think that she's even being considered anymore. She was early on and I liked the idea. Alas, I don't think it's gonna happen. Both Simpson and Spears are bad for the role, IMHO.

And I'm glad they don't have Paul Walker cast because then it would just become a deep south Fast and the Furious. I also don't think Walker would be a good fit with either Knoxville or Kutcher. They wouldn't mix well in my opinion. Scott would work well with them, personality wise, and if he were to be a bit more serious (kinda like he was starting to be in The Rundown), then I think it could work. You need some humor in this, but not the outlandish humor that Scott is known for. He could still make it work though.
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Of course, the best pairing would've been Stiller and Wilson, but that was already used for Starsky & Hutch. In the "out there, not in a million years" casting department, how about Matthew MacConaughey and Ben Affleck?

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Yeah, let's keep that in the "out there, not in a million years" category. How about John Schneider and Tom Wo... oh wait.

I think we should get Mark Paul Gosselaar and Mario Lopez. Heh heh.
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Lopez would be a half-brother, then? or the result of 'cousins'?

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We'll leave that one to the writers.
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OK. I was hopin' for some Deliverance or TCM-style shenanigans, but we'll leave it @ that.

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lol
Dukes of Bayside come to mind?
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But will it be Dukes of Bayside, California, or Dukes of Bayside, Ohio?
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