Move over , Dallas !
There's another classic prime-time soap from the 80's headed for the big screen reboot ...
Just got word that a 'Danasty movie is in the works .
Words cannot express how much I am dying over this news . It ... is ...beyond !
Dynasty creator Richard Shapiro says the movie , a prequel to the hit 80's soap , will be set in the 1960's . "It's not the wild and crazy 1960's , but the early Kennedy years " he said . The story will focus on Blakes discovery that he's heir to the Carrington empire and his love affair with Alexis .
The original Aaron Spelling produced Dynasty series centered on Denver's oil-rich Carrington family , headed by Blake Carrington (John Forsythe ) and his secertary turned second wife Kystle (Linda Evans) . The star-studded cast included Joan Collins (as Blakes first wife and catfight queen, Alexis) Heather Locklear , Diahann Carroll , Pamela Sue Martin , Jack Coleman , George Hamilton and the late Rock Hudson .
Shapiro said the script will soon be shopped around to studios . Casting hasn't begun , but Shapiro said their hope in the film will be the first in a Dynasty franchise .
"We've given thought to the movie before and we've been approached by a lot of companies , but no one seemed to have a proper fix on it . Then suddenly we said , 'Let's do it (ourselves) !'-- and we've the ones to do it ," Shapiro said .
"It was my daughter Florie's notion to do a prequel , and that sounded very , very good to us . It's how young Blake doesn't realize he's the son of Tom Carrington , but then he finds himself at the head of this company surrounded by assassins and people who want to do him in ."
Dynasty premiered exactly 30 years ago -- January 12 , 1981 -- and ran until May 1989 . It even spawned a short-lived spinoff , 'The colbys,' starring Charlton Heston .
A Dynastry reunion miniseries aired in 1991 . See you at the movies ...
