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Knoxville, Scott Hot for ‘Hazzard’
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – “Jackass” star Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott will play Luke and Bo Duke, respectively, in “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a big-screen version of the 1980s television series.
Jessica Simpson has screen-tested for the role of Daisy Duke. Jay Chandrasekhar is directing the Warner Bros. project. A start date has not yet been set.
The series, which ran on CBS from 1979 to 1985, followed the weekly adventures of southern cousins Bo and Luke — “just two good ol’ boys, never meaning no harm,” according to the Waylon Jennings theme song — who raised hell driving their souped-up Dodge Charger, the General Lee, in fictional Hazzard County. They, along with their cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, staged running battles with the corrupt authorities, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane.
Broken Lizard, the comedy troupe that includes Chandrasekhar as well as Erik Stolhanske, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Kevin Heffernan, are writing the feature. The troupe was behind the 2001 cult hit “Super Troopers.”
Knoxville, in theaters briefly over the summer with the Gram Parsons movie “Grand Theft Parsons, is filming the skate-punk movie “Lords of Dogtown.” Scott last starred in “The Rundown” and is shooting Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales.”