Lionsgate planning 'Dirty Dancing' remake

[master_8ball]

Dirty Dancing to get Hollywood remake

Reuters August 9, 2011

The beloved coming of age movie, starring the late Patrick Swayze as smoldering dance teacher Johnny Castle in a forbidden romance with teenager Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman, will be modernized for a new generation, producers said.

Kenny Ortega, the film's original choreographer and the director of the Michael Jackson concert movie This Is It and High School Musical, will direct the new version which has not yet been cast.

"Amazingly it has been almost 25 years since the original film was released, but the fans remain legion, and engaged more than ever with a brand that is special and vital to them. We believe that the timing couldn't be better to modernize this story on the big screen, and we are proud to have Kenny Ortega at the helm," Lionsgate film group president Joe Drake said in a statement.

The announcement elicited horror on Twitter, where fans railed against the idea of a remake.

Swayze died in 2009 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. Grey hit the headlines again in 2010 when she won the TV show Dancing With the Stars.

Dirty Dancing won Oscars for best music and best original song for its emotional closing number (I've Had) The Time of My Life, and has sold more than 10 millions units on DVD, as well as inspiring a hit stage show in London and six other countries.

A Dirty Dancing Facebook page has more than 10 million fans, cementing the 1987 movie's status as one of the most beloved movies of modern times.

Dirty Dancing is the latest iconic dance film to be revisited. A much-delayed remake of the 1984 film Footloose starring newcomer Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough is due to arrive in movie theaters in October, while an updated version of the 1980 musical Fame was a critical flop in 2009.

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This movie was never one I cared for so doesn't matter to me much.

[CaptainYoda]

Didnt they essentially remake this movie a few years ago with Havana Nights??

[Snicket]

Wow, Hollywood really has declared creative bankruptcy.

[Starpower67]

Originally Posted by CaptainYoda

Didnt they essentially remake this movie a few years ago with Havana Nights??

Yeah thats what I thought and that movie bombed so why do it again? I have already seen the trailer for the footloose remake and it looks awful to me. I wish they would just leave some of these movies alone they are perfectly fine as they are. Especially these dance movies, which partly worked so well because of the era they were in.

[kernel_thai]

Do I need a frakin' hot key for this? Dont try and remake cult classics! There r plenty of crappy movies to reboot if u cant come up with a new idea.