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Universal Heads to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
10 February 2010 8:26 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas gets a remakeVariety reports that Universal Pictures is going to bring The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas back to the bigscreen.
Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith (Legally Blonde) have been picked to give the 1982 film a modern spin.
Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (the Twilight franchise) are going to produce via their Temple Hill Production company.
The original film starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton "as a town sheriff and madame who team up to stop a crusading TV personality from shutting down the local whorehouse, the famed Chicken Ranch, which was featured in a Playboy magazine profile."
The first film was based on the 1978 Broadway play of the same name.
This new version will feature musical numbers, though the studio is not saying much about whether the new version will incorporate the previous film's songs.
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Free Flick Fridays: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
22 January 2010 12:39 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Dir. Colin Higgins (1982) Based on a true story, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is in the storied tradition of the kind of goofy ribald musicals (anyone remember Shirley MacLaine as a hooker in Sweet Charity?). This story started as a magazine article by Larry L. King, was adapted into a Tony award-winning musical, with a film adaptation in 1982. The most successful movie musical of the 1980s, Whorehouse had some trouble with advertising on its initial release. Since the word "whorehouse" was considered obscene, in some parts of the country the ads for the film called it The Best Little Cathouse/Chicken House in Texas. And on its release in the United Kingdom, it was seized by the Slough Police because they thought it was a dirty film. Helmed by Nine to Five director »
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Free Flick Fridays: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
22 January 2010 3:30 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Dir. Colin Higgins (1982) Based on a true story, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is in the storied tradition of the kind of goofy ribald musicals (anyone remember Shirley MacLaine as a hooker in Sweet Charity?). This story started as a magazine article by Larry L. King, was adapted into a Tony award-winning musical, with a film adaptation in 1982. The most successful movie musical of the 1980s, Whorehouse had some trouble with advertising on its initial release. Since the word "whorehouse" was considered obscene, in some parts of the country the ads for the film called it The Best Little Cathouse/Chicken House in Texas. And on its release in the United Kingdom, it was seized by the Slough Police because they thought it was a dirty film. Helmed by Nine to Five director Colin Higgins, the ever-divine Dolly Parton stars as Mona Stangley, »
2010 | 2009
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