The Dukes of Hazzard

[Guest EdwardKnoxII]

So how long before they make Knight Rider, A Team, and Air Wolf movies?

 

There's been talk about Knight Rider and A-Team movies off and on for years.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Was Air Wolf even a popular show when it was on TV?

 

Kid Rock would be my choice to sing the theme song. Maybe, a duet with Waylon's buddy Willie Nelson.

[Rendclaw 0]

Airwolf was VERY popular for the first couple of seasons, when Jan-Michael Vincent could at least TRY to act, then his boozing and drug use caught up with him big time.

 

Is Ernest Borgnine still alive?

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Borgnine is still alive.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

So how long before they make Knight Rider, A Team, and Air Wolf movies?

 

There's been talk about Knight Rider and A-Team movies off and on for years.

Well there were made for TV Knight Rider movies.

 

Knight Rider 2000 & 2010

[Guest EdwardKnoxII]

Is Ernest Borgnine still alive?

 

Of course. He's the voice of Mermaid Man on Spongebob Squarepants.

[Guest El Satanico]

Well there were made for TV Knight Rider movies.

 

Knight Rider 2000 & 2010

God damnit...never mention those agane

 

:shudders:

 

 

I'm waiting for Greatest American Hero: The Movie

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Hey Knight Rider 2000 was actually pretty good.

 

2010 on the other hand would have been a good movie in and of itself, but it had nothing to do with Knight Rider yet it was given the Knight Rider name.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

To get back on this Dukes of Hazrd theme... I think the thought of Paul Walker and Ashton trying to capture the magic of the originals, well I am skeptical. Also, who here thinks that Paul Walker will bust a vein trying his hardest not say the word "Dude" in every sentence. But Brittany in Daisy Dukes has me intrigued.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Neither one seems like they can refrain from saying Dude in every other sentence.

[Guest razazteca]

Is Ernest Borgnine still alive?

 

Of course. He's the voice of Mermaid Man on Spongebob Squarepants.

Ernest must me Uncle Jesse then. How old his he, 100?

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

I looked it up and Borgnine is 86.

 

Keep in mind that James Best, Rosco P. Coltraine, is still alive too. He's 67.

[Guest Zack Malibu]

Well there were made for TV Knight Rider movies.

 

Knight Rider 2000 & 2010

God damnit...never mention those agane

 

:shudders:

 

 

I'm waiting for Greatest American Hero: The Movie

Apparently Disney is doing it next year from what I've heard.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

That Greatest American Hero Movie better have Robert Culp in it. Robert Culp is Justice. Robert Culp is rule.

 

I think I heard about a Fall Guy movie at one time too.

[Guest EdwardKnoxII]

Looks like Cooter hates the new Duke concept. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...movies_eo/12251

 

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By Joal Ryan

 

Don't tell Cooter about Britney Spears stepping into Daisy Duke's shorty shorts for a Dukes of Hazzard movie.

 

"It's a ludicrous idea," said Ben Jones, who played good ol' mechanic Cooter on the 1979-85 TV series, meaning no offense to the popster. "Nobody has ever worn Daisy Dukes as well as Daisy Duke."

 

Spears' name was floated as possible Daisy material in Thursday's Hollywood Reporter. The trade paper also noted Ashton Kutcher and Paul Walker (news) were "expressing their interest" in playing Daisy's General Lee-driving kin, with trucker-hat fan Kutcher presumably eyeing the role of Luke (the dark-haired Duke) and Walker hot for Bo (the fair-haired Duke). The movie's said to be in the script-writing stage at Warner Bros.

 

Reached for comment Thursday at Jones' Sperryville, Virginia, club and museum, Cooter's Place, the self-described Dukes historian said the way he sees it, Daisy Duke was, and is, Catherine Bach (news), just as John Schneider (news)'s Bo Duke, Tom Wopat (news)'s Luke Duke and he's, well, Cooter.

 

"When people think of the Dukes of Hazzard they think of us," Jones, 61, said. "Why don't you get Bo Duke to play Bo Duke? Why don't you get Luke Duke to play Luke? Why don't you get Cooter to play Cooter?"

 

Jones is not the first to pose such questions. In 2001, David Soul (news), Hutch of TV's Starsky & Hutch, expressed similar sentiments when Ben Stiller (news) became attached to star in a big-screen version of the 1970s cop show. Soul's lobbying efforts failed--mostly. Starsky & Hutch, the movie, is due to open next March, with Stiller as Starsky and Owen Wilson (news) as Hutch. But Soul and original costar Paul Michael Glaser were invited back for cameos.

 

Jones, who, following his days under the General Lee's hood, went on to serve two terms in Congress, said he understands that movie producers crave young stars. He even has a suggestion on how to keep both Dukes loyalists and anxious studio execs happy: Let the Kutchers, Walkers and Spearses play the Duke family's next generation; let Wopat, Schneider and Bach cameo as their original Duke selves. And most of all, let Dukes be Dukes.

 

"If they try to do some sort of smart-ass thing, it won't work," Jones said.

 

The Dukes of Hazzard was a critically panned, but audience-embraced Top 10 hit through seven seasons on CBS. The show focused on the adventures of two good-looking cousins (Schneider and Wopat), their really fast car (a tricked-out 1969 Charger dubbed the General Lee), their even better-looking cousin (Bach), their wizened father figure (Denver Pyle (news) as Uncle Jessie), and the corrupt Hazzard County kingpin (Sorrell Booke (news) as Boss Hogg) who vowed, in vain, to "get them Duke boys!"

 

The series hit a road bump in 1982 when Wopat and Schneider held out for a bigger cut of Dukes tie-in merchandise. The powers-that-be played hardball with the actors, writing out Bo and Luke and introducing Coy (Byron Cherry) and Vance (Christopher Mayer).

 

The fake Dukes didn't take. One sub-standard ratings' season later, Wopat and Schneider returned. According to Jones, the experience should serve as a lesson to those would try to fill out Bo and Luke's jeans in a big-screen version.

 

"It was a disaster," Jones said of the Dukes' lost season. "They were nice guys, but it was a disaster. They were just blocks of wood."

 

Jones will recall happier Dukes days next weekend at the third annual Dukesfest, where upwards of 20,000 will converge at the Sperryville Cooter's Place to celebrate Hazzard County's finest. This year's event will mark the show's 25th anniversary. (Production on the series began in the fall of 1978.)

 

Original stars James Best (news) (Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane), Sonny Shroyer (news) (Deputy Enos Strate) and Rick Hurst (Deputy Cletus Hogg) are among those expected to appear, along with Jones.

 

In past years, fans have traveled from as far away as South America and Italy to pay homage to what Jones likens to a "permanent piece of Americana"--"a "B-movie Western with cars."

 

In the end, Jones said he wishes the makers of the Dukes movie well, and he wishes they'll stay true to the spirit of the show.

 

And one more thing...

 

"Let 'em know Cooter's available to play Cooter," Jones said, laughing

 

I like his idea of having them being the next generation of Dukes and having Wopat, Schneider and Bach cameo as their original Duke selves.

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

That is a pretty sweet idea.

 

But where is Cooter's museum. I want to meet Rosco.

[Guest EdwardKnoxII]

Sperryville, Virginia

[Guest Vyce]

I hate Hollywood.

 

I hate it so very, very much.

[Guest El Satanico]

A big hollywood remake of the tv show that uses cameos as a nod to the original show.

 

That's funny...

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Well, Britney is from KY.

[Guest El Satanico]

I believe she's from Alabama or some other shit hole like that.

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

She is from Arkansas. And Alabama isn't a shit hole.

[Guest bob_barron]

Britney is from Louisiana

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

Britney is from Louisiana

Sorry, I'm not up on my Britney history. But I do know that she has a great ass!

[Guest razazteca]

I hope this movie does better than I Spy or McHale's Navy.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Slightly off topic

 

The Starsky and Hutch movie better be good. It's got a great cast. Much better than the TV show. That's one remake that I wouldn't mind seeing.

[Guest starvenger]

Britney is from Louisiana

Sorry, I'm not up on my Britney history. But I do know that she has a great ass!

...which is exactly why Britney (and any other actresses - or singer/actresses et al - with nice asses) should have to audition for the role. With myself as casting director, of course...

[Guest El Satanico]

No no...Alabama IS a shit hole.

 

Ask anyone...outside of Alabama residents living in denial they will agree.

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

No no...Alabama IS a shit hole.

 

Ask anyone...outside of Alabama residents living in denial they will agree.

I don't live in Alabama, but it still isn't a shithole.