LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Matt Dillon will play the villain in the upcoming Disney remake of the classic family comedy "The Love Bug," The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday.
Dillon will play Trip, a bad boy on the NASCAR racing circuit, in "Herbie: Fully Loaded." Lindsay Lohan and Michael Keaton are already onboard for the project, and the Reporter said Breckin Meyer is in talks to join the cast as well.
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The movie is Disney's attempt to rework the "Love Bug" movies from the 1960s and '70s for contemporary audiences. The original -- directed by Robert Stephenson ("Mary Poppins," "The Absent Minded Professor," "Old Yeller") -- featured Dean Jones as a racecar driver who drove a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own to a championship.
