Oh, loverboy, wouldn’t you like another Dirty Dancing sequel? Well, you’re in luck. THR reports 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.”
Just in time for the 22nd anniversary of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, the Dirty Dancing sequel fans apparently want (the one starring Grey and not Diego Luna) is roughly, oh, 40 years in the making, but really stepped out of the corner in 2020. Still, since Deadline first reported that Warm Bodies director Jonathan Levine was shepherding a sequel with Grey in the lead, 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 from Dying For Sex co-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 Hunger Games movies for a new generation of viewers living through their own dystopia.
1987’s Dirty Dancing, 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 Road House, co-starring disgraced MMA fighter Conor McGregor. A Guy Ritchie-directed sequel to the remake is in the works. More recently, AMC announced a sequel series to Point Break.
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