Linda Gray Pitching film from Dallas featuring a ghostly Southfork
“Dallas” star Linda Gray is teaming up again with TV movie producer Larry Thompson to pitch a creepy movie set at Southfork Ranch – the real-life location that served as the backdrop for the hit ’80s primetime soap opera. Gray and Thompson worked last December on the Lifetime TV hit “Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas.”
This time, Gray and Thompson are working on a project that finds Gray (and possibly her “Dallas” co-star Patrick Duffy) as poltergeists haunting Southfork Ranch. They’re playing all-new characters – not their iconic Dallas roles – and because Southfork operates independently as a real filming and tourism location, the location is legit. But other than 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. The film follows Gray and (possibly) Duffy as the ghosts, who find themselves in supernatural arms when a young pop star arrives at the estate to film a Christmas music video. Since this is a holiday-themed movie, the ghosts conspire to prevent her from falling in love with the house’s handsome caretaker.
Should Gray and Duffy co-star, it would mark another reunion for the ‘Dallas’ stars, following the original CBS series of 1978 and 1993 and then the revival on TNT, which ran from 2012 to 2014 – until the death of star Larry Hagman led to the show’s cancellation.
“Dallas,” however, remains a fan favorite and sets the stage for an upcoming cast reunion meet-and-greet fan event at Southfork on October 25-27. Gray and Duffy are among the stars expected to attend. (Another “Dallas” reunion took place last March in Burbank.)
