Dirty Dancing Remake Eyed at ABC, Starring Scream Queens' Abigail Breslin 

Abigail Breslin, has been tapped for the female lead in a three-hour

remake that is poised to get a green light at ABC, pending further casting.

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screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein among its executive producers, the Lionsgate TV-produced redo will feature “filmed song and dance performances” as it follows Frances “Call Me Baby, But Don’t Put Me in a Corner” Houseman, an innocent 1960s lass who vacations with her family in the Catskills and eventually falls for the resort’s swivel-hipped, working-class dance instructor, Johnny Castle.

Jennifer Grey played Baby in the 1987 motion picture.

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‘s Andy Blankenbuehler, a Tony Award winner, will serve as choreographer.

With Breslin on board as Baby, who’s your pick to follow in the late, great Patrick Swayze’s footsteps as Johnny?

Seriously … NEW IDEAS!!!!!! We don’t need any more remakes.

Anyone who loves the dirty dancing do not want to see this.

No. NoNoNoNo NO. Everyone stop with the remakes. Seriously…Just STOP.

Really??? Why is this necessary? (Spoiler alert: it’s not!) The original Dirty Dancing has definitely withstood the test of time — no need for a remake!

I’m not a Dirty Dancing fan, but this seems so wrong. I like Abigail Breslin, but I can’t picture her in this role. There’s no need for a remake, either.

I hope she and the whole show can live up to the original. It will be very difficult as this was a classic.

First Urban Cowboy now this. WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY???? Can we start a Kickstarter fund for them to NOT make this?!

First Urban Cowboy and now this. WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY???? Can we start a Kickstarter fund for them NOT to do this?!

They’ve been threatening to remake this for years. It’s one of my favourite movies so I’m naturally hesitant, but I’ll check it out.

The dang well better put in that political storyline. DD is beloved for its criticism of anti-choice radicals and the dangers that exist to women from not having access to health care. It’s, more largely, a story about how women’s sexuality is policed and about how privilege/class affect your life. And remake needs to retain this essential element of the story.

Why remake a period piece? I could understand a different vision or modernization. But just remaking the same movie is a waste of time.

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