Footloose was secretly gathering its mess together in the background and now suddenly presents itself as a movie already in the making witha full cast announcement including newcomer Kenny Wormald as Ren and Dancing with the stars and country artist Julianne Hough as Ariel!
Paramount issued the following statement:
Adam Goodman, President of Paramount Pictures Film Group, announced today the completion of principle casting on writer / director Craig Brewer’s “Footloose”. Following an extensive worldwide search, newcomer Kenny Wormald will play the highly coveted role of ‘Ren’, opposite previously announced star Julianne Hough as ‘Ariel’. Dennis Quaid also joins the cast in the role of ‘Reverend Moore’, along with Miles Teller as ‘Willard’.
Craig Zadan, who also served as a producer on the original film, joins his longtime creative partner Neil Meron (“Chicago”) and producers Brad Weston and Dylan Sellers (“Agent Cody Banks”) on the remake. OscarÒ winning songwriter Dean Pitchford, who wrote the screenplay and songs for the original movie, will executive produce. Brewer (“Hustle And Flow,” “Black Snake Moan”) will shoot from a script he adapted from Pitchford’s original.
I do like the idea of Quaid as the stern well meaning Reverend, and I wonder just how close to the original this remake will run?
I have my reservations about how Footloose will play in an updated world where acquisitions of the contraband Rock Music will be impossible to control, but perhaps it will be set in the 80s and feature an 80s soundtrack. That would be awesome.
Although Julienne Hough in my opinion is an excellent choice ( it would have been awesome if they got Derek Hough to be Ren) I feel that this cannot possibly live up to the original. People love the original, not because it is a fantastically well done movie but because it is a fun, energetic and almost corny film. I could be wrong but I think that the new one will try too hard to live up to it and it will end up being a bad movie with a couple good songs or dance numbers.
Just finished watching the original. I will never, ever see this remake, even if it is playing on the hospital tv while I am on my deathbed, I will rally just enough life-force for the small time it takes to turn this off this crap. Then I will haunt the producers of this shit until they committ suicide.
Why? How do you know the remake wont be just as appealing?
You dont. And when on your deathbed making blind assumptions about something you know nothing about, I hope you spend that energy reviewing your life decisions instead of making a demonstration of ignorance.
Your last moments should not be wasted illustrating how short sighted you have become.
Having it set in the eighties would be better in my opinion, but I don’t think it will be. I also doubt that they use Rock and or Roll as the offending music. I would think that it will either be more about Hip Hop and Pop music (or both) since they are more danceable.