There's an update page for all the other upcoming movies for Owen, so we may as well have one for Starsky and Hutch as well seeing as there's news starting to trickle in about the film. So keep it here for all the latest happenings on the Starsky and Hutch feature!
8th May 2003 - New cast members have been added to Starsky and Hutch. They are Juliette Lewis, Chris Penn, Fred Williamson and Amy Smart.

5th May 2003 - Coming Soon has some more information about the Starsky and Hutch film. This time they're reporting on the car and a little more from the original Hutch, David Soul.

StarskyTorino.com have lots of pictures of the Gran Torinos being built by Premiere Studio Rentals to be featured in the Starsky & Hutch movie, plus a short MPEG film of the movie Torino #1 doing a " Burnout" in a test run.

David Soul has been talking to the British Press again, this time to the Daily Mail, about the remake and this is what he said:

But while many fans will welcome the movie, Soul is outraged at the decision to use different actors."They ain't Starsky and Hutch and to cast them as such cheats a huge audience who grew up with Glaser and Soul in the roles," he said."Their decision to make this kind of picture is an insult to the intelligence of the audience and the real warm feelings S&H still engenders in the collective memory of millions of viewers." He complained that it would simply be "another one of those bad, glitzy action pieces, like Charlie's Angels".

We will see if he is right. We (the makers of this website) think it's great this movie keeps Starsky and Hutch alive, and gives new generations the chance to meet them. The old series are great, but we are curious about the new movie. Can't stay living in the past...

1st May 2003 - The following article has appeared in Star magazine. It details security problems that have occured on the set of Starsky and Hutch. Whether or not it's true, I don't know. Star magazine is a tabloid so who knows, but if it is true, then yikes!
Click here for the article.

17th April 2003 - There's been a report over at Dark Horizons that Molly Sims of MTV's "House of Style" has joined the cast. No word yet on who she will be playing.

12th April 2003 - 2 new bits of Starsky and Hutch news. Filming began this week in Los Angeles and the budget for the film has been extended to around $60 million due to the fact the film will now be set in the 1970s.

Also, I was watching Showtime (an Australian movie channel) and saw a report on the movie news segment about Carmen Elektra joining the movie (which has also been reported elsewhere). She is all set to play the girlfriend of Hutch, who is of course, Owen!

5th April 2003 - Filmjerk is reporting that Vince Vaughn will be in Starsky and hutch after all! Here's the full story:

Vince Vaughn back in Starsky and Hutch
Written 04-04-2003 by EdwardHavens

When the big screen version of "Starsky and Hutch" first started gearing up, Vince Vaughn was one of the actors rumored to be playing the role made famous by David Soul. It will be Owen Wilson who will play against Ben Stiller's Starksy. Director Todd Phillips must have had a good time working with Vaughn on "Old School," as the two will team again when shooting begins April 9.

The storyline provided by recent casting calls say "Bay City cops Starsky and Hutch have contrasting styles that prove to be an unbeatable combination when they are partnered in a murder investigation that leads them to uncover a major drug operation by innovative entrepreneur Reese Feldman." It is this role of Feldman which Vaughn recently signed on for, and it appears Vaughn will have plenty of fun with the role. Reese is described as “a lanky and funny badass", a Harvard grad who heads an on-campus drug operation. Reese owns an investment company which is a front for a nefarious cocaine operation, and will do anything to protect his investment - including commit murder. In addition to a wife and a twelve year old daughter, Reese will also have a young and sexy Asain mistress who helps with his drug operations.

Warner Brothers and Dimension Films have teamed up to bring this high-budget, high-concept idea to life. Look for the film to hit theatres sometime in Spring 2004.

"Starsky and Hutch" Scorecard"

Director:
Todd Phillips

Writers:
Scot Armstrong and Todd Phillips,
based on original idea by Stevie Long and John O’Brien

Producers:
Stuart Cornfeld, Tony Ludwig, Alan Riche

Casting Directors:
Juel Bestrop, Jeanne McCarthy

Production Companies:
Dimension Films, Red Hour Productions, Warner Brothers

Production start date:
April 9, 2003

Shooting locations:
Los Angeles

4th March 2003 - Filming is now set to begin in Los Angeles late March. No word on why filming has been put back, but at least it's not too long!

6th February 2003 - The time period for the Starsky and Hutch film has been changed. It was going to be set in the present day, but now it will be set in the 1970s which is the same era as the TV show. Due to that, production costs have been raised and now Dimension Films will be joining Warner Bros in distribution of the film.

13th December 2002 - MTV.com spoke to Snoop Dogg about being in Starksy and Hutch and this is what he had to say:

In other film business, Snoop recently completed negotiations to play streetwise informant Huggy Bear in the big-screen version of '70s cop show "Starsky and Hutch".

"I think I am going to bring a whole bunch of flavor to the table," he said. "Huggy Bear was a flavorful individual, so me being able to handle that role just makes it the way it's supposed to be. I'm glad they gave me the opportunity to shine, and hopefully we will pull it off and make it a big blockbuster movie. ... I am down with [Stiller and Wilson] 110 percent. It's a beautiful thing that we can all come together and make it happen."

Production on "Starsky and Hutch" is scheduled to begin in February, with the film's producers reportedly eyeing a 2004 release.

27th November 2002 - Small update on the filming schedule for Starsky and Hutch. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that filming will begin in March now, not February. Not much difference in time between February and March though!

13th November 2002 - Starsky and Hutch will begin filming in February 2003 in Los Angeles.

30th October 2002 - Starsky and Hutch was talked about as being released in 2003, but several news sources now state that it has been moved back until some time in 2004.

26th September 2002 - E Online has an article about Owen's involvement in Starsky and Hutch, as well as some other little titbits...

Starsky & Hutch" Back on Beat
by Joal Ryan

Bad guys in bad polyester suits, beware. Starsky and Hutch have been sprung from development hell.

Cameras will start rolling in February on a long-planned big-screen outing for the 1970s TV coppers, today's Daily Variety says. As expected, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson will star.

Stiller will fill the turtleneck donned on the 1975-79 ABC series by Paul Michael Glaser as Detective Dave Starsky (aka, the brunet). The fair-haired Wilson will bust crime as Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (aka, the blond), a role originally essayed by onetime Tiger Beat fave David Soul.

Rapper-actor Snoop Dogg, soon to be seen in (true story) A Very Muppet Christmas, is said to be brushing up on his jive talk to handle Huggy Bear, Mr. S. and H.'s stereotypical streetwise pal (played with relative dignity on the TV series by Antonio Fargas).

The role of the Ford Gran Torino (Starsky and Hutch's seriously cool set of wheels) will, hopefully, be played by a Ford Gran Torino.

Todd Phillips (Road Trip) is set to direct. He cowrote the script with Scott Armstrong.

Earlier this year, Stiller told London's Evening Standard he's shooting to make Starsky a "really good action comedy."

"What we're going to try to do is update it in a way," Stiller said in the newspaper. "I'd like to do a new buddy cop movie, because I don't think there's been a good one since the Lethal Weapons."

But Mel Gibson and Danny Glover don't seem to be the spiritual godfathers on this project, as much as Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu are the spiritual godmothers. Talk of a Starsky & Hutch flick heated up in 1999 as production began on the big-screen Charlie's Angels.

George Clooney was the first big name to be dragged into the Starsky search. (He denied ever considering the role.) Stiller's been the only one linked to Dave Starsky since Warner Bros. bought the movie rights in 2001. Recovering Psycho Vince Vaughn was once mentioned as possible Hutch material.

Word of the Starsky & Hutch revival, while heartening to fans of the TV series, has been disheartening to at least one star of the TV series. In an August 2001 email addressed "To Everyone," David Soul bemoaned Warners' apparent plans to cast (the nerve!) movie stars in its movie.

"What the execs at Warners are missing in their equation is a huge built-in audience worldwide that immediately identifies Paul Glaser and David Soul with Starsky & Hutch," Soul wrote. "How will they change the perception of the mass viewing public that cuts across international boundaries, that Starsky [and] Hutch are NOW suddenly, 25 years later, Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, or two other actors for that matter?"

Of Stiller and Wilson, Soul, now 59, said on his Website: "These guys are good, but they're not Starsky and Hutch."

Soul's idea of a "fitting and final legacy" would star himself and Glaser, now a director, and tell the story of an elder S&H--two former partners, reunited after 20 years. "The point of the film (finally) is that true friendship is stronger and more lasting than enmity," Soul wrote in his email.

As even Soul concedes, Stiller and Wilson are old friends themselves, having costarred in Zoolander, The Royal Tenenbaums, Meet the Parents, Permanent Midnight and The Cable Guy, not to mention a hysterical Oscar presentation at the 2002 ceremony.

But until they hit the mean streets in a Gran Torino, we suppose, Stiller and Wilson will never know what it means to male bond.

This is what it says on the David Soul site:

Anyone remember a television show that aired during the seventies about two plain clothed policemen? Well Ben Stiller does, and with him as Detective Dave Starsky, Warner Bros hots up for the big screen version of Starsky And Hutch. Stiller's close friend, Owen Wilson, who has co starred with Stiller in Zoolander, Meet The Parents, etc, etc, etc, and scored a recent hit with Behind Enemy Lines, will play Detective Ken Hutchinson. Antonio Fargas, who was a firm favourite (ranked at number two) to reprise his role as Huggy Bear, loses out to Snoop "Doggy" Dog who will no doubt ensure that a significant percentage of the music-buying public will contribute to the box-office takings. "These guys are good, but they're not Starsky And Hutch." It's not the guns, the car or the clothes, its' something that can't be manufactured, it's friendship. An ingredient that Warner Bros will definitely not be serving up to its targeted teenaged audience.

Taken from the Owen Wilson website
Last updated: 17th March 2003.