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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 201592" data-attributes="member: 102"><p>There's another problem too - Dallas began in 1978. It's forty two years old! TNT Dallas featured four of the integral original actors in their original roles and now we've only got two of them left. The situation certainly doesn't get any better as more time goes by. So yeah, I think recasting for a continuation should be strongly considered. It's hard to have a Dallas without JR. Is it Dallas without JR Ewing? It's even harder without JR, Cliff and Pam (since the actress is retired from acting). This is a hypothetical scenario too, so we don't have the details. It's hard to rule out a recast when we don't even know the details of when this continuation would take place. Are we talking about a continuation that will start production next year or eight years from now? Those things make a difference. Not knowing any of the details, yeah, I'd definitely consider recasting a number of roles or maybe even all of them.</p><p></p><p>Dallas is old enough now that you could consider it a classic and as with all classics, if the story is going to continue to be told, whether on a Broadway stage or TV, at some point you either recast or you can't tell the story anymore. Broadway gets by with recasting characters in classic stories and by Broadway I really mean the entire professional theater industry. Who was the first actor ever to play Hamlet on stage? I'm sure he's not alive now. It's a classic story that people love and they don't seem to mind that they're not seeing the original actor play the role of Hamlet. So I think people could and would accept another actor playing Cliff or JR or any of the main characters for that matter, as long as they recast carefully and they get actors and actresses have the ability to play those characters in a way that has value for the audience.</p><p></p><p>We've discussed recasting for Dallas before on the forum. I really like the idea [USER=2740]@Taylor Bennett Jr.[/USER] came up with, of having a prequel to Dallas that begins sometime in the 60s and continues on into the 70s, maybe all the way up to 1978. That's my favorite idea for another Dallas of all the ones I've come across. I'd find it fascinating to get some more insight into how Jock built Ewing Oil. The could even use flashbacks to the 40s or 50s and we could see him building Ewing Oil from a small company into an empire. Let's see exactly how Jock did it! How ruthless did he have to be to accomplish what he did? How did the way he did business differ from how JR and Bobby did business? Being able to see some of the early events in the lives of JR, Bobby and the rest that helped form their personalities would be interesting. How much did not being the favorite son of either Jock or Ellie contribute to JR becoming the type of man he became? Just how different was Bobby when he was living his "playboy" lifestyle? How far was Bobby willing to go and how far did he go to ensure he was the best road man, not just for Ewing Oil, but any oil company, as he claimed he was?</p><p></p><p>There have been other series that have been what I think they call "period pieces"- shows that take place in an earlier time and some have been extremely successful. Mad Men was set in the early 60s, wasn't it? They certainly found an audience. The time period of 1968-1978 is one of those time periods in our history that as far as I know, hasn't been used in any of those types of shows. They always go back to even earlier times. Now that we've got a considerable number of our populace who fondly remember that time, or are interested in it because they were too young then to really appreciate it, I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing a prequel to Dallas that takes place then. There's a nostalgia value to it, both for the people who fondly remember that time, as well as people who were too young to fully experience it, but wish they could have been old enough to fully experience it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 201592, member: 102"] There's another problem too - Dallas began in 1978. It's forty two years old! TNT Dallas featured four of the integral original actors in their original roles and now we've only got two of them left. The situation certainly doesn't get any better as more time goes by. So yeah, I think recasting for a continuation should be strongly considered. It's hard to have a Dallas without JR. Is it Dallas without JR Ewing? It's even harder without JR, Cliff and Pam (since the actress is retired from acting). This is a hypothetical scenario too, so we don't have the details. It's hard to rule out a recast when we don't even know the details of when this continuation would take place. Are we talking about a continuation that will start production next year or eight years from now? Those things make a difference. Not knowing any of the details, yeah, I'd definitely consider recasting a number of roles or maybe even all of them. Dallas is old enough now that you could consider it a classic and as with all classics, if the story is going to continue to be told, whether on a Broadway stage or TV, at some point you either recast or you can't tell the story anymore. Broadway gets by with recasting characters in classic stories and by Broadway I really mean the entire professional theater industry. Who was the first actor ever to play Hamlet on stage? I'm sure he's not alive now. It's a classic story that people love and they don't seem to mind that they're not seeing the original actor play the role of Hamlet. So I think people could and would accept another actor playing Cliff or JR or any of the main characters for that matter, as long as they recast carefully and they get actors and actresses have the ability to play those characters in a way that has value for the audience. We've discussed recasting for Dallas before on the forum. I really like the idea [USER=2740]@Taylor Bennett Jr.[/USER] came up with, of having a prequel to Dallas that begins sometime in the 60s and continues on into the 70s, maybe all the way up to 1978. That's my favorite idea for another Dallas of all the ones I've come across. I'd find it fascinating to get some more insight into how Jock built Ewing Oil. The could even use flashbacks to the 40s or 50s and we could see him building Ewing Oil from a small company into an empire. Let's see exactly how Jock did it! How ruthless did he have to be to accomplish what he did? How did the way he did business differ from how JR and Bobby did business? Being able to see some of the early events in the lives of JR, Bobby and the rest that helped form their personalities would be interesting. How much did not being the favorite son of either Jock or Ellie contribute to JR becoming the type of man he became? Just how different was Bobby when he was living his "playboy" lifestyle? How far was Bobby willing to go and how far did he go to ensure he was the best road man, not just for Ewing Oil, but any oil company, as he claimed he was? There have been other series that have been what I think they call "period pieces"- shows that take place in an earlier time and some have been extremely successful. Mad Men was set in the early 60s, wasn't it? They certainly found an audience. The time period of 1968-1978 is one of those time periods in our history that as far as I know, hasn't been used in any of those types of shows. They always go back to even earlier times. Now that we've got a considerable number of our populace who fondly remember that time, or are interested in it because they were too young then to really appreciate it, I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing a prequel to Dallas that takes place then. There's a nostalgia value to it, both for the people who fondly remember that time, as well as people who were too young to fully experience it, but wish they could have been old enough to fully experience it. [/QUOTE]
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