Dirty Dancing is being remade as a TV movie and despite us having the Time of Our Lives every time we watch it, the prospect is slightly scary.
US TV channel, ABC has planned a three-hour reboot with Abigail Breslin set to take the lead as Baby.
The 19-year-old first shot to fame in the Oscar-nominated film, Little Miss Sunshine and is currently starring in MTV’s Scream Queens.
Despite our Hungry Eyes for the beloved 1987 classic, which stars Patrick Swayze as the snake-hipped dance instructor, Johnny Castle and Jennifer Grey as Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, we are concerned that the film was as close to perfection as can possibly be achieved.
The success of the Dirty Dancing 2.0 hinges on who takes Patrick’s role and gets to say the infamous line, “Nobody puts baby in the corner.”
In 2004, a prequel to the film, Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights was released and flopped sinking without trace.
But a very successful musical by the original screenplay writer Eleanor Bergstein was launched on stage in 2004 and she is reportedly on board for the new television version.
Fingers crossed this new version captures the essence of the original – basically rippling muscles, amazing off the shoulder tops and some raunchy dance moves.
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