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I think a reboot could work if it were taken seriously and produced for a streaming service or premium cable channel. Twelve episodes a season, high production values with a lot of location filming. I'd start the story earlier, prior to Bobby and Pam getting together. Maybe have Gary still living at Southfork. The characters should be close to the originals but I wouldn't want the plots to be outright copies. Southfork needs to be huge, closer to the mansion in the original mini-series, not the cramped quarters of the Duncan Ranch.
I've got you but to me they really have to diverge from the original, including the location, to really set it up on it's own. If they get to close to the original as a reboot then to me it would just be trying to act out what we already saw and in the first years it was so at the top of it's game anything they attempt would look like a failure. I'd go with: a northern city in the chemical industry tied to a dairy farm set in 2022 where the name of the farm is Dallas, keeping the same cast formation and names and the broad story line the same - and then see what happens.I think a reboot could work if it were taken seriously and produced for a streaming service or premium cable channel. Twelve episodes a season, high production values with a lot of location filming. I'd start the story earlier, prior to Bobby and Pam getting together. Maybe have Gary still living at Southfork. The characters should be close to the originals but I wouldn't want the plots to be outright copies. Southfork needs to be huge, closer to the mansion in the original mini-series, not the cramped quarters of the Duncan Ranch.
Wow, Sheridan is really sinking his teeth into this, isn't he. Yellowstone + two prequel spin-offs + Land Man!Also there is another series named LAND MAN from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan which is about the era of the oil boom and bust of West Texas.
I've got you but to me they really have to diverge from the original, including the location, to really set it up on it's own. If they get to close to the original as a reboot then to me it would just be trying to act out what we already saw and in the first years it was so at the top of it's game anything they attempt would look like a failure. I'd go with: a northern city in the chemical industry tied to a dairy farm set in 2022 where the name of the farm is Dallas, keeping the same cast formation and names and the broad story line the same - and then see what happens.
The show begins with a reporter going to visit the elderly Muriel, her health is deteriorating but mentally she's as sharp as a tack. The show begins as a series of flashbacks told from Muriel's perspective. She wouldn't have to be in every scene, she could relate stories she heard around the office water-cooler. Muriel would function similarly to Mary Alice on Desperate Housewives.A prequel or a continuation. Obviously all about Muriel Gillis, the Ewings' accountant for 60 years.
I can see it now!The show begins with a reporter going to visit the elderly Muriel, her health is deteriorating but mentally she's as sharp as a tack. The show begins as a series of flashbacks told from Muriel's perspective. She wouldn't have to be in every scene, she could relate stories she heard around the office water-cooler. Muriel would function similarly to Mary Alice on Desperate Housewives.
I agree. I’m not saying make it a mansion like dynasty, but a working farm. To some extent you are correct that Jock was a working class guy who made good but in no way were his sons working class and certainly Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen we not Jock rich, but they were blue bloods. So I don’t agree the whole show was based on this working class people made good. But yes I agree with the role the house and ranch played but there are lots of places all over the us like that.There is no point having a reboot without touch points with the original series.
The whole reason Dallas worked was kind captured by that ranch. It wasn't some massive mansion, it was a working ranch, these were working class people who lived the American dream and made good.
I think that is still important for any reboot. The shows sense of nostalgia to the past with their home was part of the shows charm.
But on the flipside I think it would be really weird seeing new actors playing the parts in the same house. It would be like Sue Ellen's movie
I still think it should be called Southfork, even if it looks different.
...and why many of us could easily relate to Dallas and the Ewing family. Though rich the family was relatable and touchable. They could easily have been our next door neighbours. I think that was clever on the writers part in those early seasons of Dallas; not thrusting the wealth component in our face. I look back at Southfork and think, "My goodness that house is a mansion." It wasn't. It's truly a beautiful home (not the real interior) and sits comfortably in its environment which Miss Ellie so dearly loved and protected.The whole reason Dallas worked was kind captured by that ranch. It wasn't some massive mansion, it was a working ranch, these were working class people who lived the American dream and made good.
It's possible to have both.It wasn't some massive mansion, it was a working ranch
This mansion wouldn't look out of place in a reboot of Falcon Crest.The Highlands Ranch Mansion
if the Dynasty producers could hoodwink an audience into the thinking the Carrington (Filoli) mansion actually sat in Denver, Colorado then anything is possible.