2005-04-18
AN Australian film director plans to resurrect oil tycoon JR Ewing in an ambitious movie version of cult TV soap Dallas, with Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing the leads.

Melbourne director Robert Luketic, 31, has been sworn to secrecy about the movie, rumoured to have a budget of $130 million.

Luketic's first feature film, the Reese Witherspoon comedy Legally Blonde, made almost $200 million.

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