I Dream of Jeannie Rumors Resurface

Rumors of a remake of the 1960s sitcom, I Dream of Jeanie, has been circulating for over a year, and have kicked up again. The movie has a director (Gurinder Chadha) and even a leading man (Jimmy Fallon), but still no female celebrity to play the role of Jeannie.

In the original show, Larry Hagman played astronaut Major Anthony Nelson who discovers a mysterious bottle containing a beautiful female genie (Barbara Eden) when his spacecraft makes an emergency landing on a desert island. Eager to have him as her new master, she stows herself away and is taken back to Florida, where she causes Nelson all sorts of trouble in various comic dilemmas.

The only question that remains, is which beautiful female celebrity will play the role of the dreamy Jeannie. Will it be new mom Kate Hudson, teenage drama queen Lindsay Lohan, or the sexy secret agent and expecting mother Jennifer Garner?