A Good Ole Fashioned Family Western. With Glorious, Glorious Sideburns

By Courtney Enlow | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (16)

Not since the epic Tiffany and Debbie Gibson face off of about six months from now has there been a coming together of two giants quite like this.

I speak, of course, about the reunion of Luke Perry and Jason Priestly in the Hallmark Movie Channel film Goodnight for Justice. It’s a Western, because they all are.

Somewhere, nine-year-old me is experiencing strange, unexplainable tickle sensations.

Jason Priestly is having a fairly successful-ish television directing career, which I’m sure informs his decision to not act in the movie and instead throw his dear old friend to the wolves of family-friendly entertainment. Perry isn’t doing too terribly, really. A cursory scan of his IMDb page reveals he’s been keeping quite busy. But I guess three cancelled hour-longs featuring him as a key lead, not to mention a starring role in The Sandlot 3 (that’s just sad) have lead him to give it all up and go Selleck on us. A Quigley for a new generation (which is a reference even I don’t fully understand because I’m not 70 and only watch Hallmark for Golden Girls reruns).

The plot, you ask? I’m not sure why you’re troubling yourself with such minor details when I’ve already hit on the main draw, but, sure, why not.

The Western is based on an idea by Perry who I hear envisioned it as a series of 3 movies. Set in the American Old West, it centers on John Goodnight (Perry) a circuit judge on a quest to catch the outlaw who killed his family.

I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that’s the character’s name, but I almost liked it better when I thought it was just a bad typo.

Fuck it. Sign me up for two more. Cast Brenda as Shirley Howdyall and Andrea (Ahn-DREY-ah) as Prudence Peaceout.

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That's QUIGLEY to you mutha. I will suffocate your ass!!

Kisses!!
Crazy Cora

(Noted and corrected, though I'll have to take your word for it. -- DR

Posted by: dammitjanet at July 28, 2010 1:03 PM

I have always had a soft spot for Perry. I think he's tried really hard to do more serious work and was in a bunch of pilots for HBO stuff that just didn't make it very far (One of them was John from Cincinnati and we all know what show that replaced......RAGE).

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 28, 2010 1:09 PM

It will be my guitly pleasure of (whenever it's due to come out), I'm sure. Oh, Dylan McKay ... gosh... the bad boy with that extra something.

Please could we have more posts (incl. pictures) like this one? It's just that they make me feel so young....

Posted by: SB at July 28, 2010 1:18 PM

Oh yeah! I remember these guys!

Luke Perry is the guy who played the pants-shitting archaeologist in "The Fifth Element," and Jason Priestly is The Boy on the Bike from John Hess' classic interpretation of Dean Koontz's "Watchers." Fuck yeah!

Posted by: Kballs at July 28, 2010 1:20 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102744/

ALAN RYCKMAN!!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at July 28, 2010 1:23 PM

And here lies dammitjanet, whose head surely exploded when she realized that, in her excitement to share her undying love for Quigley Down Under, she misspelled Alan Rickman's name. May she rest in peace. Amen.

Posted by: RobP at July 28, 2010 2:14 PM

Oh, yeah, the pompadours on those two would have been PERFECT in the Old West.

Though...OK, Priestley wasn't terrible in Tombstone, but that's because he played a pansy-ass deputy or something.

But...come on, Hallmark. Then again, you ARE Hallmark so what the hell do I expect?

Posted by: figgy at July 28, 2010 2:14 PM

Also:

Fuck it. Sign me up for two more. Cast Brenda as Shirley Howdyall and Andrea (Ahn-DREY-ah) as Prudence Peaceout.

Made me love you, Courtney.

Posted by: figgy at July 28, 2010 2:20 PM

*sigh

Indeed, my advanced palsy prevented me from using the correct spelling. That is, cause I'm old and all, since I remember Quigley Down Under quite fondly, and was not young enough/bored enough/sad enough to be a 90210 disciple.

You. Lawn. OFF!!!! This ball is MINE now!!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at July 28, 2010 2:29 PM

You’d think all that circuit judging would get in the way of that slain-family avenging. I guess that’s why it will take three movies.

Posted by: Harry Coverts at July 28, 2010 3:19 PM

1. Why isn't Chad Allen in this?
2. Can't wait for the sequels: Goodnight for Tacos and Goodnight for Staying in and Curling Up With a Good Book.

Posted by: Onil at July 28, 2010 3:47 PM

What about the corpse of Gabby Hayes as Crazycoot Spittoon?

Posted by: Green Lantern at July 28, 2010 4:49 PM

No reason to get hostile, dammitjanet. I saw Quigley Down Under in the theater. Granted, I was pretty young, but I loved it. Now, I just can't stand Marcia Gay Harden so I haven't given it another shot...

Posted by: RobP at July 28, 2010 5:06 PM

I'm currently watching old school 90210 with a friend, we're up to season 6 I think. I kind of missed it back in the day. I am shocked and appalled by Andrea's current behaviour (snogging some doctor in a lift), although everyone is stepping out at the moment. I am eagerly awaiting Ray pushing Donna down the stairs. (Um...I do not condone domestic abuse.) And Kelly just escaped a cult. It is awesome.

Posted by: Carrie at July 28, 2010 6:02 PM

Oh and someone (probably my brother, seeing as he once told me - as I was writing an essay for school about ships or some nonsense - that the guy in the crow's nest was called the Sprogett Man, and I totally believed it and wrote it and then he dissolved into laughter and I screwed it up [paper and pen, way old school] and had to start again and I think I cried cos I always cried when my bro was mean to me, and then later I smashed him over the head with a recorder [cheap musical instrument recorder] and split his head open, so, last laugh and all that) told me that Luke Perry was Matthew Perry's brother and I remember saying 'I totally see the resemblance.' Sucker.

Posted by: Carrie at July 28, 2010 6:07 PM

Fuckin' A, dammitjanet. Quigley Down Under was awesome. Tom Selleck and his 'stache/soul patch, the voice of Alan Rickman (the rest of him showed up too), and, not least, Laura San Giacomo as a tits-out crazy bitch. Now I want to watch it again.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 28, 2010 9:34 PM

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