Get able to have the time of your life — once more. Lionsgate is bringing its long-in-the-works, “Soiled Dancing” sequel to the Cannes Market. The “scorching market bundle” is planning to start manufacturing later this 12 months and eyeing a 2024 launch, Deadline experiences. “What They Had” filmmaker Elizabeth Chomko penned the script with director Jonathan Levine.
Additionally titled “Soiled Dancing,” the sequel will see Frances “Child” Houseman, performed as soon as once more by unique star Jennifer Gray, returning to Kellerman’s Catskills resort within the ’90s. “Like the unique, the sequel will likely be a coming-of-age romance centered on the expertise of a younger girl on the summer time camp, however Child’s personal journey will intertwine with this to create a multi-layered narrative,” the supply teases.
“This movie exists in a dialogue with the unique. We wish to introduce this story to an entire new era,” Levine advised Deadline. “That stated, Johnny’s [the late Patrick Swayze’s role in the 1987 original] absence looms giant over the story, so it’s a coming-of-age story but additionally a coming-of-age for Child’s character in a method.”
No official phrase on Gray’s co-stars but, however the movie group has put collectively a shortlist of attainable leads. The plan is for the solid to be a mixture of newcomers and seasoned actors, and Levine hinted that Gray could also be joined by different stars from the unique.
Government produced by Gray, the brand new “Soiled Dancing” will characteristic songs from its predecessor, like “Hungry Eyes,” in addition to contemporaneous music, similar to Alanis Morissette, Liz Phair, and ’90s hip hop.
“Whereas the unique ‘Soiled Dancing’ has at all times been one in all my favourite movies, I by no means imagined I might direct the sequel,” Levine stated. “By way of co-writing it, I fell in love with the characters (new and previous), the world of Nineteen Nineties Catskills New York, and the music, which can vary from songs from the unique film to ‘90s hip-hop. I can’t wait to collaborate with Jennifer to convey this lovely story of summer time and romance and dancing to a era of latest followers. And to the longtime ones, I promise we is not going to damage your childhood. We are going to deal with the project with sophistication, ambition, and, above all, love.”
Beloved by folks of all ages around the globe, 1987’s “Soiled Dancing” is “the best-selling library title in Lionsgate’s historical past,” Deadline notes. It was beforehand tailored as a 1988-1989 CBS collection, and a remake, “Soiled Dancing: Havana Nights,” was launched in 2004.
“Soiled Dancing” is at the moment screening as a part of Metrograph’s “It Occurs to Us” movie collection, a curated program exploring abortion in America, as depicted on-screen. A pivotal plot level in “Soiled Dancing” is Penny’s (Cynthia Rhodes) pre-Roe v. Wade abortion, one thing she will’t afford or safely or legally entry, but desperately wants.
Supply: Women And Hollywood