'Dallas' reboot: Producers scout locations outside Texas?!

[Brian Damage]

Would the "Dallas" reboot still be "Dallas" if it was shot in Atlanta? Or maybe Canada where many shows have taken advantage of the costs-savings. According to the original J.R. Ewing, shooting anywhere else wouldn't be the same.


On Wednesday (Feb. 9), Larry Hagman, 79, voiced his disbelief after hearing that TNT's producers were scouting shoot locations outside of Texas. And despite his protests, the producers are moving forward on that plan.


"Yeah, well, those producers are going down either this week or next week," Hagman tells Zap2it. "I hope they get Dallas. It would be awful if they get any place else - just for the publicity angle alone. But, yah know I'm not the head of that organization either."


Hagman, whose participation in the reboot was reportedly endangered by contract negotiations before he signed on to be a regular, is very frank about the reasons the show would shoot outside Dallas.


"Money. It's always about the money," Hagman, who's currently playing Frank on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," says.


The original series, which ended its 14-season run in 1991, shot on location in Dallas and in studios in Los Angeles.

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