Dirty Dancing is the latest movie lovers favorite to get a remake, though this time, it’ll be a little different.
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Originally pitched as a full feature film in 2012, Lionsgate’s Dirty Dancing retelling stumbled into one roadblock after another, and when production halted before it could even begin, the remake trickled down to Lionsgate TV.
ABC has greenlit a three-hour musical version of Dirty Dancing, which starred Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in the original film. After it was announced, the Scream Queens star hit Twitter, writing, “So excited to finally be able to tell you I’m playing Baby!”
Entertainment Weekly reports that Breslin’s character, Baby, has been described as “an innocent young woman in the early 1960s who vacations with her affluent parents and siblings in the Catskill Mountains and falls for the resort’s working-class dance instructor”. Adam Anders and Judy Cairo serve as producers, and the film is being adapted for television by Jessica Sharzer (American Horror Story, The L Word). Beyond that, Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) is on board to direct while Andy Blankenbuehler will oversee dance choreography.
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Start and transmission dates for the Dirty Dancing TV project have yet to be confirmed.
