Ambitious plans to adapt TV soap DALLAS for the big screen have ground to a halt following a series of casting problems and now star LUKE WILSON fears the project has been dumped.
The actor was among the first to be cast in the film, which at one point was to feature John Travolta, Jennifer Lopez and Shirley Maclaine, but now he fears the project will never get off the ground.
He says, “It fell apart in the casting. They had a few people lined up, like me and John Travolta and Shirley Maclaine. I’ve read with actresses and they had a script and a director.
“I think it was the big budget and the cast that complicated matters. It just got too complicated. If they could get it up and running again, great, but it seems to have run its course for the moment.”
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Jennifer Lopez has dropped out of the new movie adaptation of ’80s TV show Dallas. No reason has been provided for the actress’ exit.
“She is out of ‘Dallas,’” said Lopez’s publicist, Leslie Sloane-Zelnick, on Thursday.
Lopez was set to play the role of scandalous alcoholic Sue Ellen Ewing. She would’ve starred opposite John Travolta, who has taken on the role of oil tycoon J.R. Ewing. No replacement has been named as of yet.
The film also lost its original director, Robert Luketic, earlier this year. He blamed his departure on “creative differences.”
Aside from Travolta, both Luke Wilson and Shirley MacLaine are still on-board with the project.
Victoria Principal of “Dallas” fame has filed for divorce from her husband of 21 years, E! Online reports.
According to filed court papers, Principal is citing irreconcilable differences from her husband, Harry A. Glassman.
“We have no further comment at this time, other than what is in the court file,” Principal’s publicist, Alan Nierob, told People magazine.
The papers were filed in Los Angeles District Court on Tuesday of this week, but Principal has cited the date of separation as March 25.
It is unclear if the divorce is due to the domestic violence issues that the couple has in 2003, when Glassman was arrested for the crime, but the charges were later dropped.
The couple has no children.
