Idina Menzel will play C.C. Bloom in Lifetime television remake of Beaches.
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The 1988 tearjerker from director Garry Marshall starred Bette Midler as CC, an aspiring singer and Barbara Hershey as Hillary, two girls who meet on on the Atlantic City boardwalk and become lifelong friends.
As Deadline reports, Menzel (once famously dubbed “Adele Nazeem” by John Travolta in the mother of all Oscar teleprompter flubs) will record new versions of the film’s songs “Wind Beneath My Wings” and “The Glory of Love”, along with recording some additional songs for the remake. Their friendship-even with its ups and downs-sustains them for decades. In addition, Menzel will record several other songs specifically for the project, which will be produced by Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan.
Allison Anders (Ring of Fire) will direct the Lifetime remake, which will feature a script by Bart Barker (Honeymoon with Harry) and Nikole Beckwith (Stockholm, Pennsylvania).
U.S. network Lifetime has announced plans to give Beaches a contemporary reboot, this time as a made for TV movie.
The announcement of a Beaches remake comes one week after Marshall died at the age of 81 from complications from pneumonia.
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Production begins on August 15, aiming for a 2017 premiere date on Lifetime.
