Jennifer Grey Will Return for ‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel: "The Next Chapter"

[Turd Fergusen]

No one puts Baby in the corner.

Jennifer Grey is set to have the time of her life once more in the sequel to 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.”

Lionsgate held a presentation at Cinemacon in Las Vegas yesterday where they announced the new flick alongside old clips from the romance drama.

“Jennifer Grey returns to Kellerman’s in the next chapter,” a voiceover said.

Kellerman’s was the Catskills resort where Grey’s character Frances “Baby” Houseman and her family vacationed when she met and ultimately fell in love with dancing and Patrick Swayze’s Johnny Castle.

The world of “Dirty Dancing” was expanded with two other ill-received projects in the past.

2004 saw a prequel flick entitled “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” that had very little to do with the original film and brought the location to Central America amid the Cuban revolution in the 1950s.

Swayze — who died in 2009 at the age of 57 — made a cameo appearance as a dance class instructor. The prequel garnered poor reviews, however the soundtrack was pretty satisfactory.

ABC then commissioned a made-for-TV “Dirty Dancing” remake that bombed the ratings with their musical song covers and extra unnecessary scenes to stretch a three-hour time slot.

Whispers of Grey’s involvement in a potential sequel first hit in 2020 when Deadline reported that Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer described the project as “one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood.”

“It will be exactly the kind of romantic, nostalgic movie that the franchise’s fans have been waiting for and that have made it the biggest-selling library title in the Company’s history,” Feltheimer said in an earnings call at the time.

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Jennifer Grey will return for ‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel: ‘The next chapter’

Jennifer Grey is set to come back to Kellerman’s in a new “Dirty Dancing” sequel.

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[Sejanus]

Her plastic surgery made her unrecognizable.
She is nice to look at, but just not Jennifer Gray anymore.
Must be odd to wear a different face.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

For the love of God, please no.

‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel: How a Patrick Swayze hologram could ruin everything​

We all know the famous movie quote: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner with a CGI replica of the late Patrick Swayze.”

OK, that’s not the exact phrase, but it is nonetheless a distinct — and mortifying — possibility for the forthcoming sequel to the 1987 classic “Dirty Dancing.”

Swayze, who played sexy Catskills dancer Johnny Castle and died of pancreatic cancer in 2009, could return for the sequel in a digitized form — completely unbeknownst to him, and potentially unbearable for us.

“We’re going to try to involve as many people from the original as is appropriate,” the director Jonathan Levine told Deadline from the Cannes Film Festival, adding that the production is in conversation with Swayze’s estate. “Johnny is a part of Baby’s journey in the story.”

One read of that and I can’t disguise — I’ve got ANGRY EYES!

While Levine’s exact intentions and artistic vision are unclear — he did respond to a request for comment — one can’t help but wonder if 62-year-old Jennifer Grey, who memorably played Baby in the original, will somehow preposterously be made to cha-cha with Swayze from beyond the grave.

If the film’s plan was to simply flashback to old footage from the original — here we are balancing on a log! You’re tickling my arm! — sources say there would be little point in communicating with the estate about something so common.

‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel: How a Patrick Swayze hologram could ruin everything

We all know the famous movie quote: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner with a CGI replica of the late Patrick Swayze.”

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[Cider]

Hollywood is always milking nostalgia.

 

[the cat did it]

"Nobody puts baby in the corner" -Patrick Swayze

A couple interesting facts about the most iconic and memorable line in the movie: That was originally considered a "throw away line" , while filming no one cared for the line and Swayze did not even want to say the line. The writer told Swayze to just do the scene with that line just once and that it may not even be used in the movie upon editing-he did the line once-they ended up keeping that in and the rest is history as they say. Second fact which I found most interesting is that when this movie aired in Germany it was dubbed over in German and the Germans are very cautious to make sure that what the dubbed version is saying matches as closely as possible to the actual mouth movements of the actors-well "nobody puts baby in the corner" in English looks nothing like when being dubbed over in German-so the Germans changed that line to better match Swayze's mouth movements. The German line for that scene is "My baby belongs to me, this is clear" and apparently the Germans had a huge positive explosive reaction to this line and for them this is the most iconic line in the movie-Germans don't know WTF you are taking about if you quote the line as how it is originally done in English. At a minimum it shows just how that scene in it of itself made such an impact on the audience regardless of what was ACTUALLY originally said.

I am full of useless facts of all sorts-if only I could get paid for it!!!!

And lastly-let the movie rest. It came out on top and has stayed there as an "iconic" movie-don't mar it especially with a digital version of Swayze to keep him in the movie-let Patrick Swayze and Dirty Dancing movie RIP-went out on top-let them stay there.