Well, Harry here. Doing a follow up on Father Geek's "DIRTY DANCING 2 at New Line" story. Here's a bit of background on the history of this project (or notable lack thereof). As for all you Talk Backers laying waste to the concept of a sequel to DIRTY DANCING... I just want to say, "SUCK THIS!" I love DIRTY DANCING. I must have watched that damn film (along with FERRIS BUELLER and RED DAWN) about 200 times in my teenage years and had a GIGANTIC Jennifer Grey crush. What happened years later with her and Swayze. Did they try to go to Broadway? Were their dreams crushed, or did they triumph again? Perhaps they opened a dance school? Perhaps they became overbearing parents forcing their children to listen to 'glory stories' about when they were young, before their knees went and they became arthritic ol geezers embittered by their loss of youth? I don't know... BUT I MUST KNOW!!! Bring em back! Bring em back! Now the concept of bringing in Natalie Portman to play a 'Dirty Dancing Debutante part 2'. Well... Natalie is the exact same sort of adolescent wet dream girl that Jennifer Grey was... THOUGH... NOONE WILL REPLACE JENNIFER GREY AND OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN! NOBODY! However, for a new generation (God, I'm nearing 30) I guess this would be cool. But spandex and french cut panties would probably be needed to start the callous hearts of today's horny youths.
Harry, I was over at "Artisian" who owns the rights to "Dirty Dancing" and witnessed 2 attempts to get DD2 off the ground. I still have my "Budgets" for the stupid project!
Artisian spent at least a couple of million dollars on a sequel, they had a script, and set up production offices, and at one point even had "Swayze" in the sequel. It fell apart like a cheap suit last year. It was the second attempt with Herbert Ross producing, and writing.
This franchise is done ... "put a fork in it".
If New Line wants it, then they are going to have a lot of development costs to repay to Artisian , and that is alot of fat for such a questionable franchise. I could be wrong, but with Warner taking so many loses this year, I can't see them giving New Line the "green light" for this one.
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