Everybody cut Footloose!

I haven’t blogged in a while because: 1.) I don’t think there has been anything really blogworthy. I mean, So You Think You Can Dance has started their new season, but I’m just really *eh* about it thus far. and 2.) I am just lazy — but that has all changed since I got this bit of news:

PARAMOUNT PICTURES BEGINS CASTING SEARCH FOR THE FEATURE FILM FOOTLOOSE

This movie does not, I repeat DOES NOT need to be remade. How can you re-create the magic of John Lithgow’s evangelical attempt to exterminate the art of dance? And will there ever be a dance sequence that will replicate Chris Penn’s farm boy jive to Deniece Williams’s “Let’s Hear it For the Boy.” And what about that scene in the drive-in burger joint? Or Kevin Bacon’s dance of rage in the abandoned warehouse? Or better yet, what about Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Rusty? All have been cemented in pop culture history.

But alas, this movie will be remade no matter what I say. Like any other remake (or as they say in the industry, “re-imagining”), I have a morbid curiosity about how it will turn out. My guess is that the soul will be sucked out of the original and it will morph into some glossy Hollywood over-produced music video set to a soundtrack featuring the Black Eyed Peas and Taylor Swift. It will definitely feature lots of sparkle and sass (please reference the 2009 remake of Fame). They might even make it into a 3-D movie.

Anyways, this open call for auditions is “seeking males 18 or older to play high school seniors” and they “MUST HAVE NATURAL RHYTHM AND BE COMFORTABLE DANCING. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A TRAINED DANCER BUT A QUICK LEARNER.”

I am seriously thinking about busting out my Apple Bottom jeans and boots with the fur to try out for this thing.

If you want to jump on the bandwagon, you have until June 9. Read complete details here.