Aug 19, 2009 by Courtney O.

Lionsgate Set for Updated Dirty Dancing

Lionsgate is gearing up for a remake of the 1987 classic Dirty Dancing and has set Julia Dahl (Uptown Girls) to work on the script, according to Production Weekly.

The original starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey as a young woman in the summer where she meets Johnny Castle (Swayze) who teaches dance at a family Summer Camp and in his off hours Dirty Dances with the other dancers. She learns a routine so that one of the women can recover from an abortion and becomes Johnny's lover.

No production date has been set.


Sources: Production Weekly

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Comments (17)

  1. Mutant

    It will most likely be a data chip than a file. Technology is growing to fast, next thing we know we'll be like the Borg or worse yet, Terminated by robots.
    I would never put a chip in my head.

    2 years agoby @zenderFlag

  2. Drsatan1978

    sad very sad

    2 years agoby @drsatan1978Flag

  3. Vanboy

    wolf92, do you really think the younger generation gives a crap about our nostalgia or if they're interested in leaving the classic films alone?

    Hell, everything is going digital now. Soon film won't even exist anymore(thanks again George Lucas!). Pretty soon, people will be saying, "Hey did you catch that new file"? Everything is being too mass marketed these days. Damn shame!

    2 years agoby @vanboyFlag

  4. Vanboy

    SWAK1774, Are you serious!? Saturday Night Fever!!!??? I hadn't heard that. DAMN!!! What are they thinking?! That is the Holy Grail of '70s movies!! Gene Siskel is surely turning in his grave right now!!

    Zac Efron in polyester? I think not!!!

    Yeah Ottley, you're probably right about that casting. Whoever is the flavor of the month, just throw them in there, slap the title on it and get the dolls just in time for Christmas!

    2 years agoby @vanboyFlag

  5. CelluloidDreams

    The original was made for a measly $6 million, and went on to gross over $200 million worldwide. It also became the first film ever to sell a million copies on video and won several Golden Globes. You'd think the studio would have learned its lesson already, and not mess with a good thing.

    2 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  6. SWAK1774

    Just like SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (which I've read is being remade also) this should be left alone.

    2 years agoby @swak1774Flag

  7. wolf92

    seriously cant wait for the new younger generation to take over the film business to stop all these remakes

    2 years agoby @wolf92Flag

  8. Mutant

    NOOOOOOOOOOOO, by the way Tin man and a few other films were based on The Wizard of Oz years ago.
    I have the original to this, I refused to see the second film and I'll refuse to see the remake. If any of you want to see something else, film festival mean anything to you.
    Just rent films and avoid the remakes.

    2 years agoby @zenderFlag

  9. Daydream247

    I'm getting sick of Hollywood... They'll probably make it into a disney movie, they need to stop messing with classics. What's next? The wizard of Oz???

    2 years agoby @daydream247Flag

  10. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    Okay, this should not even be touched, this film is an instant classic...
    I'm open to remakes as long as they aint classics, but this film is amazingly done, if you haven't seen it i highly recommend.

    This is like an equivalence to remaking casablanca or Gone with the wind.

    Knowing Hollywood they will update this to some teenage version with Vanessa Hudgens or Demi Lovato in the female lead.

    Vanboy said it beautifully
    "The original is perfect'

    2 years agoby @chronicFlag

  11. Vanboy

    I have to say, I totally agree with what everybody is saying here. And I'm the one open to some remakes. If everyone if "US" can agree with this, you know that in all that is Holy, this remake must not happen. The original was perfect. Then that sh*tty Havana Nights came out. And geuss what...FAIL!!!! "Nobody re-puts Baby in the corner"!!!!

    2 years agoby @vanboyFlag

  12. Rlt9009

    Hollywood needs to stop this sh*t!!!

    2 years agoby @rlt9009Flag

  13. WiseGuy

    Well, At least there's one remake I dont give a flying f*ck about. lol

    2 years agoby @zgcorleone072Flag

  14. justinishulk

    HELL NOOOOOO!!!! WHY EVERY MOVIES MUST REMAKE??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT MOVIE??? JUST LEAVE THIS ALONE AND DO SOMETHING ELSE DAMNIT!!!! BAD IDEA MAN

    2 years agoby @justinishulkFlag

  15. -comrade-

    Bad idea.

    2 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  16. Cripple

    I am like Moviemaniac. Never seen, but I should. And I agree, this is just going to piss people off. This is too sacred to people

    2 years agoby @crippleFlag

  17. Moviemaniack1993

    I never saw the original (I know, kill me) but I already know that people are going to flip out over this. This is really the last straw. Such a terrible idea. This movie is like sacred to people.

    2 years agoby @moviemaniack1993Flag

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