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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 389663" data-attributes="member: 57984">Hagman preferred Bruce Willis. Duffy thought Travolta was a poor choice, but Travolta would have been better than people think: he's a great mimic and would have impersonated Larry brilliantly.The film project fell apart because Travolta requested that they do the movie seriously and not comedically (as Hollywood in recent decades chooses to do lazily). And after a number of rewrites in development, they delivered a script which was ..... comedic.They just couldn't help themselves.At least, that's what I've heard.Josh Henderson was perfect (although I've bounced around the idea that he could've been wicked Christopher who bonds more to his Uncle JR than does sweet-natured John Ross). The nuDALLAS had some good scenes, but they almost seemed to be by accident and the producers never noticed -- whenever they focused on the Ewings, it seemed to mostly work. But they just didn't do much of that.</blockquote>