RANT: Shamelessly predjuging the Dukes of Hazzard movie

[WhiskeyRebel]

The info I'm seeing about the new Dukes of Hazzard movie is showing some interesting casting choices.

Sorrell Booke as Boss Hogg was a grasping little runt. That was comical because his obsession with sucking up every penny in the county was such a Napoleon complex thing. A big dude like Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg is a whole other type - a steamroller, bully type. The kind of guy who figures I'm born to rule, I take what I want, what the hell y'all gonna do about it.

Who they going to have for Lulu? If they are making a point of using physical opposites, it will probably be Callista Flockhart.

Denver Pyle's Uncle Jesse was a feisty, crotchety, ornery ol' cuss. I'll have to take it on faith that Willie Nelson has enough acting ability to appear as anything other than a mellowed-out elderly high-on. Not that there is anything wrong with mellowed-out elderly high-ons, just the Uncle Jesse character never was one of those.

And Daisy. Catherine Bach played Daisy as a tough, sharp-witted broad who would pretend to be a dizzy bimbo to fool the knuckleheads like Enos. And as good as she looked, she still had a sort of girl-next-door thing. I can't get with a blond Daisy who's a publicly established genuine dizzy bimbo and looks like the "after" picture in a plastic surgeon's sample book.

What else could they do? Have Bo and Luke cook meth instead of moonshine?