Tag: Dirty Dancing
DIRTY DANCING Remake Announced
Lionsgate is set to produce Dirty Dancing, based on the classic 1987 film of the same name, it was announced today by Joe Drake, co-COO of Lionsgate and President of the Motion Picture Group. The original film’s choreographer Kenny Ortega (HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT), will direct. Debra Martin Chase (THE PRINCESS DIARIES, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS) and Kenny Ortega are producing. The studio is in talks with Eleanor Bergstein, the writer and co-producer of the original film, regarding her involvement in the new film in a producing capacity. Alli Shearmur, President of Motion Picture Development and Production, is overseeing the project on behalf of Lionsgate.
Lionsgate is Developing a Dirty Dancing Remake
A remake of the 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing” is in the works. Production Weekly broke the news via their Twitter page.
Uptown Girls writer Julia Dahl has been hired to pen the script for the new movie.
