Deadline is reporting that ABC has given the go ahead to a three-hour TV remake of the hit 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, with Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Scream Queens) taking on the role of Baby, played by Jennifer Grey in the original film.
The site reports that the production will not be a live musical like the upcoming Grease Live, but will instead be similar to the upcoming remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. As with the movie, it will centre on Baby, “an innocent young woman in the early 1960’s who vacations with her affluent parents and siblings in the Catskill Mountains and falls for the resort’s working-class dance instructor.”
The Dirty Dancing remake is said to be nearing a formal green light, dependent on the casting of Johnny Castle, who was originally portrayed by Patrick Swayze.
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Originally published December 10, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
