Remake set for 2011?

Looks like a remake is on the cards in 2014. I did a search for best little whorehouse in texas, and there's a 2014 title. No cast info yet though.

I personally look forward to a remake. As much as I love the Burt/Dolly version, there's a LOT that was changed in the transition from stage to screen (I've seen a stage production of the show), not to mention only six or so songs from the show were used in the movie. Use ALL the songs next time around. There's also more slapstick-type comedy in the 1982 movie...the stage version is a little more serious.

Never say never, but it appears the remake's in limbo. Of course, this is one of the few instances when the term "remake" probably wouldn't be applicable since the film strayed so far from the source material.

As for the differences between the film and the stage play... Dolly was reluctant to make the movie because she was afraid that playing a whorehouse Madame might tarnish her image -- rather ironic since she literally patterned her image after the town whore she'd seen as a child, but at the time she was a media darling churning out hit after hit on the country and pop charts. She agreed to do it when "9 to 5" director Colin Higgins assured her that she wouldn't be made to look foolish. The roles of Miss Mona and Ed Earl were not quite so central in the play but Universal wanted to sell it as a Burt & Dolly film, so the script went through countless changes, the love story between the pair was added, and Dolly was asked to pen some new songs ("Down at the Chicken Ranch" and "Where Stallions Run" didn't make the final cut, but one surfaced in a trailer and the other in the TV edit).

The whole situation pissed off screenwriter Larry L. King (the guy that broke the real-life story to begin with), who challenged Reynolds to a fistfight in the press (nothing came of it that I'm aware of), badmouthed the two leads and denounced the movie until the day he died. Fearing they had an enormous fiasco on their hands, Universal reworked the movie, toned down the subplot about Ed Earl's relationship with Dulcey Mae, removed the full-frontal nude verse of "The Aggie Song" (which allegedly briefly surfaced on You Tube) and made numerous other trims and revisions. Now you know why it's so uneven. It was the Reagan era and everyone was afraid of offending someone, which is why the film that ultimately resulted teeters ridiculously close to the edge of family-friendly.

Released up against "E.T.," which was tromping all of the competition, and outright banned in some areas, the movie was not a box office success, but (like "Little Shop of Horrors" a few years later) it became a monstrous hit on home video and television.