Footloose is JUST a Remake - NOT the Musical!!

Maybe I'm just in the dark, but I assumed that if they were making a modern version of Footloose starring Julianne Hough, that it would be this year's movie musical. Went tonight with GREAT hopes that it would be amazing... instead, it's just an unnecessary and stupid badly done remake. What a disappointment!! Not that Footloose the musical was anything stellar to begin with, but when we only get one movie musical a year, I'll take what I can get.

I'm in SUCH a bad mood now, and wish I hadn't wasted my money. As much as I LOVE Julianne Hough, I honestly didn't need to waste a night and $13 bucks on an effing remake of a movie that didn't need to be remade...

Ugh!

Really? I didn't think they ever intended it to be the stage version, it was always billed as a remake.

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I've been hearing good things about it. And a quick internet search would have revealed that it's not a musical. You were definitely alone in the dark with that. Even when Kenny Ortega was attached it was not being described as a traditional musical or as having anything to do with the Broadway stage version.

The stage version is crap, not no need to make it into a movie.

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I fully admit that I was too busy to do any reading about it ahead of time. I just made an assumption it was going to be the musical and I had hoped they would clean up the book and make it work. Im just bitter and disappointed because we seem to only get one movie musical a year (two if we're lucky), and I went into it expecting a musical and was just bummed that it wasn't. So yes, I'm just being bitter and venting. After suffering through Baby It's You, Wonderland and People in the Picture, I had hopes that a new well made movie musical would wash the bad taste out of my mouth of bad Bway musicals. My mistake. Just venting my disappointment. I almost don't even care WHAT the movie musicals are every year, as long as we GET one!! (and that they're done well, of course).

Guess this is my season of ignorance. Been SO busy making a movie
, haven't had time to catch up on the industry. Hell, I even figured Lysistrata Jones was a new black musical! Was excited about some great soul singing on Broadway then saw all the white faces in the video posted here the other day and realized I was wrong about that too! I know, I know, just because Carmen Jones was a black musical doesn't mean Lysistrata Jones will be... But in my defense, I've been working on a film the past three months and completely out of touch.

Hey billyboy, you seem pretty eager to let us know you're working on an ACTUAL MOVIE, but if you want us to be impressed about your ACTUAL MOVIE CRED, you might want to have the SLIGHTEST CLUE what's going on in the movie world. Just saying.

Correct.

FOOTLOOSE was going to be a "movie with music." New songs were to be written and Zadan/Meron wanted to move forward in that direction...until this project went askew. They lost its star, studio support, and a director.

Zadan/Meron finally caved to save their film. Too late. Didn't seem like it was going to happen. But then they got a new director and re-conceived the film enough where studio support was restored.

I think the FOOTLOOSE remake is smart and well done. I liked it. Didn't love it and it won't win any awards, but today's teens will appreciate it.

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Les Miz is being released December of 2012.. and Rock of Ages in June.

:)

When the previous director was attached it was going to be more of a musical. The producers grew weary of that which lead to the director and studio parting ways due to artistic differences. It was covered in a lot of the entertainment news sites at the time, and I believe I posted a link to one of the stories in a thread about Footloose here in the past.