'Dirty Dancing' Remake Put in Corner for a Couple More Years
Nobody puts Baby in the corner, but a remake of Dirty Dancing is fine to shove out of the way for a couple years.
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'Dirty Dancing' Remake Time
In these modern times, is Baby still safeguarded from corner placement? Time to find out! Production Weekly has revealed that Lionsgate is developing a remake of the 1987 Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey/Laws & Order's Jerry Orbach film about dirty dancing, Dirty Dancing. Meaning all those other movies where a guy and girl fall in love while scandalously dancing haven't been remakes of Dirty Dancing? I just assumed at least a few were.
With a remake of Footloose also in development, people who like to for some reason pretend that dancing is still considered lewd or taboo in any way have a lot to look forward to! Let's hurry up and get this in theaters so that Conan O'Brien can ironically demand its re-release in ten years.
(via Coming Soon)
If David Lynch Directed 'Dirty Dancing'
Not as haunting a juxtaposition as If David Lynch Directed A Goofy Movie or If David Lynch Put Still-Warm Panties in His Mouth, but still definitely worth watching for some new perspective on putting Baby in a corner: David Lynch's Dirty Dancing.
(Thanks, Matt.)
