CBS To Make A Gunsmoke Movie

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CBS To Make A Gunsmoke Movie
Topic Started: Aug 6 2009, 12:34 PM (80 Views)
KanSmiley	Aug 6 2009, 12:34 PM Post #1
Charter Member Posts: 1,223 Group: Members Member #10 Joined: September 3, 2005	After some of the recent attempts to revive our western heroes I am concerned about this. http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/08/gunsmoke-remake-cbs.html Smiley Edited by KanSmiley, Aug 6 2009, 08:28 PM.
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Barcroft	Aug 6 2009, 02:05 PM Post #2
Charter Member Posts: 239 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: September 7, 2005	Smiley: I guess CBS will hire Seth Rogen to play Matt Dillon!!!!!!!!!!! Barcroft



Ignatz Ratzkywatzky	Aug 6 2009, 06:45 PM Post #3
Charter Member Posts: 750 Group: Members Member #28 Joined: September 5, 2005	I'd be interested if they based it on the darker and more entertaining radio version. The radio show is one of my all-time favorites. The TV show always put me to sleep.
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CliffClaven	Aug 7 2009, 10:17 AM Post #4
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 232 Group: Members Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2009	Gunsmoke isn't the worst idea for a retread, although it wouldn't surprise me if they kept nothing more than the title and a lawman named Dillon -- which may be all most of the audience remembers. There's a fine old tradition of tacking famous real-life names on scripts that didn't even reference the original person -- a clean-shaven Roy Rogers becomes Young Buffalo Bill, for example, in an absolutely typical Roy Rogers story. I can easily image some writer dusting off his unsold Clint Eastwood epic and doing a search-and-replace on a few character names.


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