'Footloose' Remake Finally Makes Its Bacon

If you're still interested in the Footloose remake, first making the bold assumption that you were ever interested, then you'll be happy to learn the cast is finally set and Paramount will proceed as planned. Well, not exactly. It was supposed to open this spring, then later this month, and now April 1, 2011. But it's on track, anyway. Zac Efron bounced out of this, then director Kenny Ortega caught a lifeboat. Chace Crawford couldn't fit the shooting schedule around marij...um...Gossip Girl, and then Craig Brewer came in to direct, on the condition he could also rewrite it, so there was some more lost time. But Paramount swears it's all a go now. Through a press release, the studio notes that Julianne Hough is still in the cast, Dennis Quaid will play her father, the John Lithgow character from the original. And the new Kevin Bacon is unheralded Kenny Wormald, seen on MTV's Dancelife, whatever that is. He's clearly got moves, though, having toured as a dancer of Justin Timberlake and the Pussycat Dolls. Of course, that's only half the battle, isn't it? Says Brewer:

"I saw Footloose in my hometown theater when I was 13-years-old and it rocked my world. It was a teenage rebellion movie that explored the struggles of faith and family in a small town, and it had an awesome soundtrack. I can promise Footloose fans that I will be true to the spirit of the original film. But I still gotta put my own Southern grit into it and kick it into 2011...It’s going to be a blast!"

I'm reminded of Fame whenever the subject of this remake comes up. Granted, Fame wasn't quite as big out of the gates as Footloose was in the 1980s, but nobody intended to see this remake was even alive then, anyway. The Karate Kid might be the anomaly among all these updates, but maybe Footloose can pull a bigger audience than I think it will.

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