There's part of me that thinks that a big budget film version of Dallas is a joke, and yet there's another part of me that thinks it might just work, especially if today's rumoured castings come through. We've known John Travolta has had the offer of J.R. for sometime, but Luke Wilson as Bobby, Jennifer Lopez as Sue Ellen and Shirley MacLaine as Miss Ellie?!

It could either be eager Studio's leaking the offers to try and gauge public opinion as well as get us all behind the idea and push the stars towards the roles, or it really could be true. Certainly it sounds like a great fun cast, although I'm not so sure about Wilson as I would be about Travolta, Lopez and MacLaine, they are just superb choices. I do hope it's true because the appearance of such big names that could make this film.

From Variety through Dark Horizons comes the news:

Robert Luketic is heating up in the casting stakes reports Variety...If the deals come to fruition, production is likely to commence in October after Travolta has finished up a starring role in New Line Cinema's bigscreen version of Broadway hit "Hairspray".

Oh please let this be true!