They will be doing Dirty Dancing 2, with Jennifer Gray, the actress who hated Patrick Swayze

Of the many successful films in the ’80s there was one that was talked about for years, about the possibility of a sequel. No. the goonies. not either I want to be big either When Harry met Sally. top gun It has it, and it will open in a few weeks. It’s a musical. Nor is it flashdance.

Is about Obscene danceYes, the musical hit movie (I’ve Had) The Time of My Lifeperformed by Bill Medley and Oscar-winner Jennifer Warnes (for best song, not best photo).

The film has patrick swayze Y Jennifer Gray, released in 1987, in which an (im) probable continuation was announced when its male lead was still alive -Swayze died in 2009, a victim of pancreatic cancer. They offered him $ 6 million, but he didn’t like the sequels, and there was no deal.

To the fans of Obscene dance: If you haven’t seen the single chapter dedicated to the film Movies have shaped us, the Netflix series, I don’t know what they do. Put down your cell phone or computer, pause reading this note (then come back) and go streaming. No problem.

Now, the project is more advanced than ever, and will soon become a reality, with Jennifer Gray once again performing as Baby.

So the director, Jonathan Levine, will be attending the upcoming Film Market in Cannes, taking place in parallel with the Festival, in order, together with Lionsgate, to accelerate future international sales.

Facing it, Levine, who directed 50/50along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, said that (the project) “exists in a dialogue with the original … We want to introduce this story to a whole new generation. The absence of Johnny (the character of actor from Ghost, shadow of love Y point limit) is around the story, so it’s a coming-of-age story, but also of coming-of-age for Baby’s character in a certain way ”, that’s all he wants, so he knows how to advance.

Gray, that we’ll tell you how bad he was to Swayze before and in the early days of filming hot danceas it was titled in Argentina, announced recently that “they are doing this sequel with Lionsgate and preparing the script, we have been with him for a few years”.

“And I know in my heart that I want to give fans or a young, new audience an experience that doesn’t mimic that, but has the same kind of foundation,” Gray was excited about his bank account, which after the success almost never made more than TV movies or “guest shows” in television series in the past… 35 years.

Jennifer is the daughter of Joel Gray, the actor of Cabaret, won an Oscar as a supporting actor for the MC’s presentation of the film Bob Fosse, with Liza Minnelli. And he had romances with Johnny Depp and Matthew Broderick.

The songs

If there’s one thing fans are interested in, other than the plot, it’s what they hear on the soundtrack. Well, they promise to have a musical repertoire that ranges from original songs from movies to hip-hop hits from the ’90s. As the story progresses three decades — the original took place in the 1960s—, in the early ’90s.

Levine threw in a few names, like Alanis Morisette and Liz Phair as artists whose songs could, perhaps, perhaps, in one of those, come out in the sequel.

What is “Dirty Dancing” about?

A true classic of the ’80s, the protagonist is Baby, a girl who is a bit disappointed when she has to spend the summer season with her parents at a quiet resort in the Catskills. But, there is always a but, everything changes when the dance partner runs out of the resort’s dance instructor (Johnny), and he chooses it as his new partner and of course, the two are lovers. Baby’s father forbade her to see Johnny, but she, wholeheartedly, was determined to help him perform the last big dance of the summer.

what more

Baby, the character played by Gray, returns to Kellerman’s resort in the Catskill Mountains, in the state of New York, where the original film took place. There he met Johnny. But because the idea is to catch, hook or use the verb they want, to an audience that is also new – young people are the ones who fill theaters today, not so many who filled them 35 years ago – there will be, again, a story begins, which happens to be played by a girl during a summer stay, and -of course- a subplot will affect Baby.

It has not yet been decided who will play the maiden, or the young man, the casting is open.

The sequel to Obscene dance was co -written by Levine and Elizabeth Chomko (writer and director of what we were) and filmmaking is expected to begin at the end of 2022 —that is the money from the pre-sales of the Marché du filme that was harvested shortly in Cannes— until the premiere in 2024.

Levine has worked at Lionsgate before: it was in romantic comedy Not even in your dream (2019), starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron.

The fights between Patrick and Jennifer

The protagonists of Obscene dancethe fiction debut of Emile Ardolino, who won an Oscar for a documentary and would later direct Habit change, along with Woopi Goldberg, got to know each other before they started shooting or rehearsing scenes for the film. And they don’t seem to remember their participation in red dawn (1984), by John Milius, directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the barbarianand even before writing the script for apocalypse todaybut we get off topic.

It’s also true that Patrick became a professional dancer and Jennifer didn’t, and it drove her crazy. Swayze wrote in his biography that he found working with Gray “extremely irritating,” that he refused to rehearse scenes if they still needed to be replayed, and that he would cry on set when criticized.

For his part, Gray said that “Patrick played pranks on me and everyone. He was late and believed he was the boss of everything, he acted like a macho and I couldn’t stand it.” It dragged him away red dawnMilius ’film about young Americans defending their country from an offensive attack by Soviet troops in a hypothetical World War III.

Gray even asked the production not to be leading Patrick Obscene dance. But after the first few days of filming, Swayze asked him to speak and they ironed out the differences to continue filming.

A secret abortion in 1963

What will not be noticed is the year in which it was shot Obscene dance -1987- the theme of a clandestine abortion navigates the framework of the musical and romantic comedy that took place in 1963, and the event was marked by fire the main character. Although, at that time, many did not even notice, or missed.

We were told that Johnny had lost his dance partner. The reason is that Penny (Cynthia Rhodes) had a secret abortion. No, Johnny is not the child’s father, but a waiter at the resort, a macho man who doesn’t want to be responsible for the pregnancy.

Let’s remember: the plot took place in 1963, ten years before the right to forced abortion was recognized in the United States.

Baby, who we have already mentioned with a big heart, not only takes money to help Penny but, when the woman’s life is in danger due to complications incurred after the operation, she goes to her father who is a doctor. Yeah, the same one who doesn’t want me to dance with Johnny.