Footloose – In Need Of New Dance Partners
You can now breathe a sigh of relief, it looks like we don’t have to worry about this 80’s classic being remade with two left feet. It’s been announced that the new Footloose has been taken off of Paramount’s production schedule. This following the loss of the director, Kenny Ortega and the earlier set back of Zac Efron turning down the Kevin Bacon role for fear of being typecast, ha!
National Lampoon’s Vacation – Have Station Wagon Will Travel
New Line is working on a “reboot” of the series with a story line focusing on Rusty. This time around it will loose the National Lampoon’s credit and is said to be more of a “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” style cross country journey with Rusty taking his family to Wally World before it closes forever. The film will be written by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.
No word on if Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo will reprise their roles as grandparents.
[Variety]
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas – Renovations at the Chicken Ranch
News is Universal has signed writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (The Ugly Truth, The House Bunny) to write an update of the musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas which was based on the 1978 Broadway musical of the same name. The new version will also be a musical but no indication has been given if any of the original songs will appear. We can only hope for a cameo by Dolly Parton and her cash cow of a song, “I will always love you.”
[EW]
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
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