Soiled Dancing Sequel Formally Units Filming Window With Jennifer Gray Returning As Iconic Position

Child is lastly out of the nook as a Soiled Dancing sequel with Jennifer Gray is formally underway.

Launched in 1987, the unique film starring Gray as Frances “Child” Houseman and Patrick Swayze as Johnny Fort is taken into account a traditional romance movie. Soiled Dancing 2 was introduced in 2020 with Gray as a star and government producer, however the venture has confronted quite a few delays since then. The discharge date was pushed to 2024 after which to 2025, neither of which got here to fruition. This has led to uncertainty about the place the follow-up story would ever grow to be a actuality.

Now, Lionsgate has introduced that the Soiled Dancing sequel is formally transferring ahead and is deliberate to start filming later this 12 months. Together with Gray reprising her position as Child and government producing, Emmy Award nominee Kim Rosenstock is writing the script, and The Starvation Video games‘ Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson will likely be government producers as nicely. Adam Fogelson, chair of the Lionsgate Movement Image Group, spoke in regards to the studio’s enthusiasm about their partnership with Gray, Rosenstock, Jacobson, and Simpson. Take a look at his assertion under:

Soiled Dancing stays as beloved at this time because it was upon its preliminary launch, and we knew {that a} very particular group of individuals must come collectively for followers to embrace a return to Kellerman’s. We’re past thrilled to announce now we have assembled the right crew to hold this movie ahead in partnership with Jennifer Gray. There aren’t any higher producers for this film than our longtime companions and buddies Nina and Brad from The Starvation Video games, and we couldn’t be extra excited to have Kim approaching board to jot down. With this tremendous crew now in place, we’re transferring full steam forward in order that each current followers and new audiences can uncover the magic, the music and the emotion that’s Soiled Dancing in a brand new theatrical movie meant for the large display.

Gray and Jacobson additionally launched statements in regards to the movie, with the actor explaining what Child means to her and why the sequel has taken so lengthy, adopted by the producer expressing gratitude for being “invited again to Kellerman’s for yet another dance.”

Jennifer Gray: The position of Child has held a really deep and significant place in my coronary heart, because it has within the hearts of so many followers through the years. I’ve lengthy puzzled the place we’d discover Child years later and what her life could be like, however it’s taken time to assemble the sort of people who I felt could possibly be entrusted to construct on the legacy of the unique movie… and I’m excited to say that it appears just like the wait will quickly be over!

Nina Jacobson: Soiled Dancing is that uncommon movie that’s as emotional, exhilarating, and rebellious at this time because it was the 12 months it was launched. To have the ability to work with Jennifer Gray and Lionsgate on the sequel is a real pleasure for Brad and me. We really feel so lucky to have been invited again to Kellerman’s for yet another dance.

Whereas Gray is coming again to play Child many years after the ending of Soiled Dancing, a lingering query is how the sequel will tackle Johnny’s absence since Swayze handed away in 2009. With Gray asserting that she needed to take time to construct a crew that she might belief, this bodes nicely for the story discovering a approach to respectfully honor Swayze and the character of Johnny.

As indicated by Fogelson’s feedback, Jacobson and Simpson have a profitable historical past with Lionsgate resulting from their work on The Starvation Video games motion pictures. Jacobson has produced each movie within the well-liked dystopian franchise, whereas Simpson’s first was The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes. They’re each working as producers on the following installment, Dawn on the Reaping, which will likely be launched in theaters on November 20, and are serving as government producers on Ryan Murphy’s upcoming Love Story: John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.

Rosenstock’s credit previous to the Soiled Dancing sequel embody co-creating Hulu’s Dying for Intercourse starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate and serving as a author and government producer for Solely Murders within the Constructing, GLOW, Single Mother and father, and New Lady. Rosenstock acquired Emmy nominations for Excellent Restricted or Anthology Collection and Excellent Writing for a Restricted or Anthology Collection or Film in recognition of Dying for Intercourse.