Bottle-Necked No More?

The long-gestating I Dream of Jeannie big-screen adaptation is moving again with Sheila Callaghan having been hired to write the script according to The Los Angeles Times.

Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against "Bewitched" , the series starred Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master and eventual wife

Bill Daily and Hayden Rorke co-starred as episodic directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman called action for its 5 year run.

The difficulty with any modern film version of any classic sitcom of that time is that it was very much a series of its time and is very hard to update.

Witness the Nora Ephron-directed Bewitched film that starred Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell, (totally miscast) that tried its own post-modern approach to the premise and was a critical bomb and box-office disappointment.

No further dates or involvement from cast or crew for Dream are yet known.