'Buh--wha?
Jun. 8th, 2010 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Which begs the question of who in the hell are they going to cast to play Barbara effing Stanwyck's role?
One would assume (If they are keeping any physical similarities from the series) that Moyer would be either Nick or Jared (He might pull off Nick appearance-wise, but I'd think he'd fit a Jared-like personality. I could kind of see him as Jared). He looks nothing at all like blonde Lee Majors circa whatever 60s/70s years or whatever that The Big Valley was on (my only memories of the show are endless re-runs.)
Err... am somewhat embarrassed that I remember this much about The Big Valley.
ETA: Should've read the rest of the article. They don't give the name of the character but by description, yep. He's definitely cast as Jared.
And... yeah. Still embarrassed that I remember all of that. It was just that The Big Valley was in constant after school re-run rotation with Star Trek TOS, Little House on the Prairie, Bewitched, Brady Bunch, and Gilligan's Island when I was a kid. Hey, we only had 3 channels! Sooner or later you watched it all!
It was only a matter of time before the insane popularity of HBO’s True Blood earned its cast some big-screen love, and today news broke that Stephen Moyer — the show’s leading vamp, Bill, and real-life fiancé of co-star Anna Paquin — would grace the silver screen in not one, but two upcoming film projects: The adaptation of TV series The Big Valley ...
Buh-wha? The Big Valley is going to be a movie? Buh-wha? How's that going to work? The only real identifiable storyline that I can remember was Heath's and the hints of possible incest with Heath/Audra (funny what storylines stick with us from stuff we watched in our childhood.) And boy was Barbara Stanwyck's matriarch surprisingly okay with her dead, beloved husband's bastard showing up (at an age somewhere BETWEEN the ages of her own children!) and giving him 1/4 share of the family ranch...
Which begs the question of who in the hell are they going to cast to play Barbara effing Stanwyck's role?
One would assume (If they are keeping any physical similarities from the series) that Moyer would be either Nick or Jared (He might pull off Nick appearance-wise, but I'd think he'd fit a Jared-like personality. I could kind of see him as Jared). He looks nothing at all like blonde Lee Majors circa whatever 60s/70s years or whatever that The Big Valley was on (my only memories of the show are endless re-runs.)
Err... am somewhat embarrassed that I remember this much about The Big Valley.
ETA: Should've read the rest of the article. They don't give the name of the character but by description, yep. He's definitely cast as Jared.
When the actor begins filming Valley next month, he won’t be too far from his day job — he’ll be shooting in Louisiana just a stone’s throw away from the True Blood set. In the film, a remake of the 1960s ABC series, Moyer will play the attorney son in a family of ranchers in 19th century California. Jessica Lange, who steps into the series’ Barbara Stanwyck role, will play the matriarch of the Barkley family.
Strange that they would film this in Louisiana rather than California. (And Jessica Lange = Barbara Stanwyk??! WTF?!) And now I wonder who is playing Heath. Heath, the poor bastard angsty-orphaned son, was always my favorite. And... yeah. Still embarrassed that I remember all of that. It was just that The Big Valley was in constant after school re-run rotation with Star Trek TOS, Little House on the Prairie, Bewitched, Brady Bunch, and Gilligan's Island when I was a kid. Hey, we only had 3 channels! Sooner or later you watched it all!
