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Even with its three main stars bailing on the franchise as if it were infected with a career-ending disease, The Dukes of Hazzard will indeed be returning ... to a much smaller screen. However, instead of a traditional sequel, it appears as if they're going with a prequel for their sequel. Yee-haw!  According to Cinema Blend, the casting notice for the film also lists it as "straight to DVD."

So, will we find them Duke boys strutting around in diapers? Almost. The plot for the film is said to focus on the boys as teenagers, while we follow them through their first wild confrontations with Boss Hogg. There's something in there about Uncle Jesse and the origins of Daisy's dukes but, in the end, does anyone really care what this movie will be about? As Martha stated previously, Johnny Knoxville, Sean William Scott, Burt Reynolds and Jessica Simpson will have nothing to do with the prequel. Such a shame, seeing as the first one was just so entertaining. Oh well, perhaps Jessica wants to move onto bigger and better things. Either that, or she's just swapping out the Dukes for a bathing suit.

Sometimes I come across these news items, and I have to blink several times, rub my eyes, and/or slap my own face before I believe what I'm reading. So Jessica Simpson is traipsing around telling people that a Dukes of Hazzard sequel is not only in the works, but it's going to be set in, of all places, London. Simpson shrilled to Sky News: "[The Dukes] would be lost in London. I think Daisy and those crazy boys will have a great time in the UK."  At what point does something move from simply being a bad idea, to becoming a public nuisance? I urge all Londoners to fight the scourge of a Dukes of Hazzard II location shoot – haven't you been through enough?

 
From The Borowitz Report: "At the Pentagon, Secretary Rumsfeld categorically defended the use of the Dukes film, telling reporters, “Don’t think for a moment that if the enemy had The Dukes of Hazzard they wouldn’t use it on us.”

• So much for that 2-year break she was on about last week: Nicole Kidman has signed to star in Invasion, a Warner Brothers sci-fi thriller to be directed by Oliver Hirschbeigel, the mad behind the Hitler-eats-ravioli drama Downfall. The script was initially inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but has since mutated into its own beast. It shoots in September.
• Brian Lowry says that whilst Dukes of Hazzard "simply juggles and updates elements from the program that made its debut in the 1970s", "assuming someone was determined to remake this mediocre but iconic TV show, this is probably as good as it's going to get." Plus, Jessica Simpson's ass is "its own kind of special effect".
• Family films are having a much larger impact on foreign box office than the usual summer action fare, to the point where Madagascar and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory look like sleeper hits, as they capitalize on slow roll-outs and long runs to out pace splashy dubuts like Batman Begins.
• Michael Costigan has been named president of Tony and Ridley Scott's Scott Free productions.

If you believe that we each carry every emotion inside of us, then Jessica Simpson might be described as the vixen who stimulates the small misogynistic part of me that simultaneously makes me want to make out with her and shove her into traffic. In an interview with the Edmonton Sun, Simpson discusses her debut movie role as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard, and her worry that her butt was too small to play the part. I think we were all concerned about this; I'm just glad she broached the subject.

According to an AP interview with stuntman-turned-actor Johnny Knoxville, the rugged thirty-something's acting coach compares his client to Jack Nicholson, claiming "they're both inappropriate men who are honest about themselves." I myself am an appropriate man who is often dishonest about himself, which I guess means I won't be starring in any John Watters flicks or movie adaptations of TV shows anytime soon. I figure even if Knoxville doesn't turn into a leading man, he has the kind of eclectic appearance and personality tailor-made for lesser but memorable roles.

• The Island: San Francisco, CA - WB20 is giving you the chance to win passes to an advanced screening.
• Dukes of Hazzard: Boston, MA - EDGE is giving away passes to a special advance screening on August 1st. Winners MUST be available to claim their prizes at the EDGE "Dukes of Hazzard" Party at Club Cafe on Friday, July 22nd. Winners must be able to present themselves to the EDGE staff between 9PM-11PM. No prizes will be mailed to winners. Check your email on July 20th, as all event prizes will be awarded then. Note: Club Cafe is a gay bar/restaurant.
• Rhythms of the World: San Diego, CA - To get advanced ticjers to the new IMAX movie at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center all you need to do is go to Goodwill Industries Retail Store in the Mission Square Shopping Center - 1006 Mission Avenue - Oceanside - 760-439-3301 and pick them up. Limit 2 passes per person. (Each pass is good for one person) Passes are FREE while supplies last. No purchase necessary.
  

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Former Dukes of Hazzard star Ben Jones wrote an open letter to fans on his website, asking them to boycott the new movie adaptation, and calling it a "sleazy insult". Jones says that the profanity and sexual content in the film will make a mockery of the original family friendly show. How does he know? Has he seen the movie? Nope, but he claims to have read a copy of the script.

"Basically, they trashed our show. It's one thing to do whatever movie they want to do, but to take a classic family show and do that is like taking I Love Lucy and making her a crack head or something." He strongly recommends that true blue Dukes fans "hold their noses and pass this one up." Ben Jones played Cooter Davenport, a role played by Anchorman's David Koechner in the new movie.