Kenny Ortega Exits Big Screen FOOTLOOSE Redo

[broadwayfreak4]

Posted: 10/25/09 at 6:08pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kenny_Ortega_Exits_Big_Screen_FOOTLOOSE_Redo_20091025

Variety reports the news that director Kenny Ortega has exited the upcoming big screen musical remake of "Footloose." The trade paper cites differences with Paramount Pictures on tone and budget as the cause for Ortega leaving the production.

The Ortega directed Michael Jackson concert film "This is It," which hits movie screens next week on October 28th.

Variety reveals that Paramount will start the search for a new director on Monday, and is sticking to its plan of starting production in March, when star Chace Crawford is on hiatus from the CW hit "Gossip Girl." Crawford is will start alongside Julianne Hough of "Dancing with the Stars" fame.

[Dantes]

Posted: 10/25/09 at 11:09pm

Wow things are going well for this

[Parks]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 1:13am

Sounds promising!

[Shakespearean]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 9:47am

I'm available to direct but I need some concessions. I want "I Confess" back in; someone to walk my pugs; a bowl of blue almond M&Ms in my trailer; and a choreographer who understands what I mean by "Now make them do that one-two-kick-and-the-jiggly-hand-thing". I don't think I'm asking too much.

[winston89]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 9:55am

I'm confused, I had heard that this was going to be a movie musical version of the show. But, I have also heard that it is just a non musical remake. Anyone know which it is going to be.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 10:01am

I think it's just easier and all encompassing to just say it is going to be crap.