33 years after the first
A sequel to Dirty Dancing has been announced with star Jennifer Gray.
The follow-up, which is expected to be released more than 30 years after the first, commissioned through Lionsgate along with Gray, who described Bathrough in the 1987 film, also executive producer.
Jonathan Levine and Gillian Bohrer of Warm Bodies will direct the new film. Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, the duo Five Feet Apart and The Curse of The LLorona, wrote the script, Deadline reports.
Speaking about the project, Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate, said: “This will be precisely the kind of romantic and nostalgic film that franchise enthusiasts have been waiting for and that has made it the best-selling library name in the company’s history. . “
Dirty Dancing is the story of Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a teenage girl who fell in love with Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a dance at a summer camp.
When it was launched, it raised $218 million (166 million pounds) in the overall workplace of the box after costing only $5 million (3.8 million pounds) to manufacture. A spin-off film, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, released in 2004.
In 2017, the film’s remarkable ascent dance movement posed a medical challenge for a couple after not doing it properly. The couple went viral after posting pictures of the incident online.