Dirty Dancing Sequel Finds Its Footing as Lionsgate Schedules Production for Later This Year With New Creative Team

Lionsgate is heading backmost to the creation floor, arsenic the sequel to Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey’s ‘80s classic, Dirty Dancing, has yet recovered footing with a caller originative team.

The institution announced its plans to revisit the beloved romance film’s beingness are backmost connected way today, confirming improvement has kicked up again, with caller members of its halfway originative squad already successful place. Production is present acceptable to statesman aboriginal this year, with Grey inactive signed connected to reprise her relation arsenic Frances “Baby” Houseman.

Baby, we’re back. #DirtyDancing sequel - starring Jennifer Grey. Now successful development. pic.twitter.com/XZa16Wic0l

Hunger Games and Crazy Rich Asians producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson person boarded to oversee Dirty Dancing 2, with Glow, New Girl, and Only Murders successful the Building writer Kim Rosenstock attached to pen its screenplay. Meredith Wieck and Maria Ascanio volition oversee for Lionsgate, and Grey is besides connected committee arsenic an enforcement producer.

“The relation of Baby has held a precise heavy and meaningful spot successful my heart, arsenic it has successful the hearts of truthful galore fans implicit the years,” Grey said successful a statement. “I’ve agelong wondered wherever we mightiness find Baby years aboriginal and what her beingness mightiness beryllium like, but it’s taken clip to assemble the benignant of radical that I felt could beryllium entrusted to physique connected the bequest of the archetypal film… and I’m excited to accidental that It looks similar the hold volition soon beryllium over!”

Director Emile Ardolino’s Dirty Dancing premiered successful 1987 and tells the dance-infused emotion communicative of Baby and Johnny Castle (Swayze). Beyond leaving its people with standout performances from its leads, the quintessential ‘80s movie is known for its all-time large soundtrack, featuring songs similar Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes’ (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life and Eric Carmen’s Hungry Eyes.

Lionsgate’s archetypal announced its Dirty Dancing sequel successful 2020, confirming Warm Bodies’ Jonathan Levine had been brought successful to nonstop a screenplay from Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis (Five Feet Apart). Although Levine is inactive progressive arsenic an enforcement producer, helium volition nary longer direct, leaving the spot vacant for now.

“Dirty Dancing is that uncommon movie that is arsenic emotional, exhilarating, and rebellious contiguous arsenic it was the twelvemonth it was released,” Jacobson said successful a statement. “To beryllium capable to enactment with Jennifer Grey and Lionsgate connected the sequel is simply a genuine joyousness for Brad and me. We consciousness truthful fortunate to person been invited backmost to Kellerman’s for 1 much dance.”

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