Yes girl. You’re about to have the time of your life all over again – Almost 40 years after Dirty Dancing burst into our lives, it’s been confirmed a sequel to the iconic film is coming!
We kind of already knew this…. but here’s what we didn’t know:
Lionsgate has announced the movie will start filming in the coming months with original star Jennifer Grey returning as Frances “Baby” Houseman. She will also serve as executive producer.
In a press release, Jennifer said she’s been waiting for the right team to make this happen:
“The role of Baby has held a very deep and meaningful place in my heart, as it has in the hearts of so many fans over the years. I’ve long wondered where we might find Baby years later and what her life might be like, but it’s taken time to assemble the kind of people that I felt could be entrusted to build on the legacy of the original film… and I’m excited to say that it looks like the wait will soon be over!”
Fellow star Patrick Swayze, who played Johnny Castle, passed away in 2009 from pancreatic cancer. He was 57 at the time. We’re hoping they’ll honour him in the sequel in some way, but obviously no plot details have been released just yet.
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The studio has confirmed that The Hunger Games’ Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson will oversee the project as producers and Dying for Sex’s Kim Rosenstock will write the script. A director is yet to be announced.
The original Dirty Dancing was released in 1987 and followed the story of Baby and her dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
“Dirty Dancing remains as beloved today as it was upon its initial release, and we knew that a very special group of people would have to come together for fans to embrace a return to Kellerman’s,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson said in the release.
“We are beyond thrilled to announce we have assembled the perfect team to carry this film forward in partnership with Jennifer Grey. There are no better producers for this movie than our longtime partners and friends Nina and Brad from The Hunger Games, and we could not be more excited to have Kim coming on board to write. With this super team now in place, we are moving full steam ahead so that both existing fans and new audiences can discover the magic, the music and the emotion that is Dirty Dancing in a new theatrical film meant for the big screen.”
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