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Dance with me one more time Baby

“Nobody puts Baby in a corner!” Well baby may get cornered once again as Lionsgate goes into talks about a remake of the ever so popular “Dirty Dancing” from the 1980’s. The original turned Patrick Swayze into a rising star overnight as the dance instructor Johnny Castle. The original also starred Jennifer Grey as Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman (who also starred in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with Matthew Bardrick a year earlier.) Will the new version shot any of the new cast into super stardom?

The original Dirty Dancing is the story of a rich young girl who meets an older rebellious dance instructor, from the wrong side of the tracks, while staying at a summer resort with her family. They dance into each hearts and cause a lot of damage along the way.

The new version is being penned by Julia Dahl who has written for popular tv shows The West Wing, Party of Five, and Just Shoot Me. She also wrote the movie Uptown Girls which starred Brittany Murphy. At this time there in no word about the new cast but a lot people are speculating. A few media outlets are predicting it will be ‘High School Musical’ stars Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale as the leads of Johnny Castle and Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman.

The original Dirty Dancing was made a budget of $5,000,000 and went on to gross over $200,000,000 worldwide. Will the new movie do as well? I am sure Lionsgate hopes it will but only time and the movie going public will tell.

Patrick Swayze is currently battle pancreatic cancer.  Despide reports which suggested the actor is slowly losing his battle witht the dease, recent photos show Swayze looking healthy.