http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2113025/
According to the above IMDB page there's a new movie or TV show named Petticoat Junction a-brewin. Not many details besides a listing of Gary Moore in the cast.
It doesn't even indicate whether it's a movie or regular sitcom, but it does have a US$5 million dollar budget, so I'm thinking movie. Anybody have connections and can find out more?
I don't see it having much appeal these days, but I was wrong once.
It's also interesting to note that Tom Lester, who played Eb on "Green Acres," is co-writing this reboot. It also states that Shreveport, LA will be used for filming locations. Sounds like it may be either a theatrical or television movie to me. I just don't think that you could ever replace Edgar Buchanan and Bea Benederet as Uncle Joe and Kate Bradley. They made the show what it was. Also, it was such a different world when the show originally aired and it would be impossible to recapture that time of innocence. But, I would think that Tom Lester would do everything in his power to make it stay true to what it was.
share I would cast: 1st choice: George Wendt(runner up John Goodman) as Uncle Joe
Bridget Mendler(runner up Tiffany Thornton) as Billie Jo
Miranda Cosgrove(runner up Victoria Justice) as Bobbie Jo
Alyson Stoner as Betty Jo
Jim Belushi and Dan Akroyd as Charley and Floyd
Have no idea who would play Kate or Sam
Kim Kolzak or Brittany Johnson as Bimbo Jo
shareFor Kate,maybe either Meg Ryan or Melanie Griffith. No idea for Sam. Especially if it is a movie and not a rebooted series.
shareIt's Tom Logan not Tom Lester
shareNo, it's Tom Lester...
shareGoing by IMDB, Tom Logan is the director and writer and Tom Lester is a producer. I don't think that is as important as they are thinking of a reboot. I hope that it remains true to the innocent, sweet stories rather than making it yet another lascivious show on TV. Since Tom Lester is a pastor, hopefully he will be able to influence it in the right direction. We need more family shows.
shareThe key is not to be too literal in (re) making this. Paul Henning had stated the show was designed to reflect the Arkansas of his youth approximately around 1920. There are extremely few people that will find that interesting today. However, the people who were kids or young adults when the show was produced would be interested in the nostalgia of going back to the mid 1960's to 1970 when this show technically took place. Even then there are probably not too many people interested in the singing of adult contemporary music (Beautiful balloon) from that show. I don't know that you can change much without changing the essence of what the show was. The minute you make it less rural to appeal to a broader audience is when it becomes less appealing to its core fans. Hopefully Hooterville will be a small farming community circa 1970 that has some interesting people running a small hotel among other inhabitants. I wonder how somebody like Uncle Joe would play to the audiences of today.
shareWell said, BiffGG. Instead of a reboot, I just wish they would release the remaining seasons to DVD. That way, those of us who remember could watch and appreciate it again. (MeTV is not available in the mornings where I live.) So true about Uncle Joe. I can't imagine ANYONE liking his character now. (I couldn't stand him the first time around.)
shareUncle Joe could be diagnosed with ADD or Autism, so he'd be classified "special" and only Homer Bedloe would get uptight with him, then.
Bedloe is an adult child of alcoholics and a war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, explaining his meanness...or his meanity...meanyosity... WHAT EVER......
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Because Uncle Joe was disabled with a double slipped disc hernia and rarely got off the porch the tea party people would label him an Obama voter looking for free stuff. Kate, owning a small hotel would be a job creator who could only hire her daughters part-time or she would have to pay for ObamaCare. The train would be shutdown by the EPA and be replaced with a hybrid. Homer Bedloe would be a Romney-Repub with a car elevator and a prancing horse. The train driving guys would be union guys that would constantly be causing the little railroad to be on the verge of bankruptcy. The girls wouldn't be allowed to ride in the cab of the train due to OSHA rules.
shareGag, I'm afraid this will be how the Bradley girls will be depicted for the modern audience:
Boy crazy Billie Jo will have a belly button ring, wearing low cut jeans showing her shaved pubis, big fake tits, and she'll be a skank.
Book worm Bobbie Jo will be all nerded out, with thick black eye glass frames, she'll be a conservative republican.
Tomboy Bettie Jo will have to be a dyke, with a pierced nose, have sleaved tattooed arms, with short spiked red hair.
Not long ago I was in a discussion on a PJ fan page. We came up with the idea of a "next generation" idea with now middle aged Kathy Joe becoming widowed and bringing her three teen daughters with her to take over the Shady Rest from her retiring parents. Her deceased husband's uncle, also named Joe, could make the scene and decide to stay around, perhaps after he has helped defeat Bedloe's grandson who is carrying on the vendetta against the Cannonball. Are you sure this will be a reboot or could it possibly be a sequel?
shareNot my first choice but I could go along with a next generation concept. It would have to retain the innocent nature of the original or I will not watch it. I don't know how the Cannonball translates to today? If Bedloe is going to be a feature it would be more believable to make him the owner of some other local business such as the owner of a farm supply business. This would not create direct conflict with the Bradley's but if Steve as a cropduster did business there it would create the conflict needed. Since cropdusters are not all that politically correct nowadays let's make Steve a farmer perhaps an organic dairyman. He does not need to be the most modern farmer going but here is my vote for not going to the extreme the original went in terms of being anachronistic. Horse drawn farm equipment was pretty well gone by the 1960's other than the Amish so I don't want to see dated stereotypes now.
shareI'd take more of a Brady Bunch Movie type approach. My scenario would be to leave the Bradley family just as they were in 1965. Meanwhile, a vacationing 2014 family takes a wrong turn in their SUV and winds up at the Shady Rest. Culture shock everywhere! I'd also like to see Bette Midler as Kate.
share@barry-marino9 - Love your suggestion I think it would be an absolute hoot talk about culture/generational clashes.
shareTom Lester is gone so I wonder if any project is ever going to take root. Also, 10 years elapsed since this thread was started. Maybe ideas have changed in those 10 years. A lot of the people who experienced the 1960's as young adults are in their mid 70's and older. How do you sell PJ to a younger generation in 2022? I still think a period piece is the best approach. I don't know that many would watch a lampooning of the series like The Brady Bunch Movie (1995). Uncle Joe would probably be remade into a 25 year old unemployed cousin. Kate would be an early 40's MILF. Neither depiction fits the image of what PJ was.
shareI bet it'll have a fag, a dyke and a chinaman as the "daughters."
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