‘Dallas’ Star Linda Gray Pitching TV Movie Where She’d Play a Ghost Haunting Southfork Ranch (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Dallas” star Linda Gray has re-teamed with TV movie exec producer Larry Thompson to pitch a spooky film set at Southfork Ranch — the real-life location that served as the setting for the hit 1980s primetime soap.
Gray and Thompson worked on last December’s hit Lifetime TV “Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas.” This time out, Gray and Thompson are shopping a project that finds Gray (and potentially her “Dallas” co-star Patrick Duffy) as poltergeists who haunt Southfork Ranch.
They’re playing all-new characters — not their iconic “Dallas” roles — and because Southfork operates independently as a real-life venue for filming and tourism, the location is legit.
But beyond the similar casting and perhaps some tongue-in-cheek references, there’s no connection to “Dallas.” Former Hallmark Channel “Home and Family” producer William Keck (who also recently released his tell-all memoir as a former tabloid reporter, “When You Step Upon a Star”) wrote the script.
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