The long-awaited follow-up to Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is finally making some progress as the Jennifer Grey sequel moves forward.
that the long-awaited, Jennifer Grey-led legacy sequel, presumably about Baby’s return to the Borscht Belt for a summer of vengeance, is finally making some progress. The film will see Grey have the time of her life, once again, as Frances “Baby” Houseman, finally giving fans a chance to see what Baby did with her life after getting out of the corner, a place nobody better even think about putting her.
“I’ve long wondered where we might find Baby years later and what her life might be like, but it’s taken time to assemble the kind of people that I felt could be entrusted to build on the legacy of the original film,” Grey said. “I’m excited to say that It looks like the wait will soon be over.”sequel fans apparently want is roughly, oh, 40 years in the making, but really stepped out of the corner in 2020. Still, since, the film became a casualty of the ongoing Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, which the studios dragged out for months. The latest update confirms that Levine won’t be directing—though he will executive produce the picture. More interestingly, the latest version of the script comes fromco-creator and showrunner Kim Rosenstock, who will set about updating the ’80s best abortion-based romance. She’ll be joined by producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, who recently revived the, of course, starred Grey opposite Patrick Swayze, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2009. But the news arrives amid increased interest in reviving Swayze classics. In 2024, Jake Gylennhaal starred in a remake of
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