angryyoungman

No, that's not the title of this sequel, but this movie is in the works (just one of many interesting 2003 releases listed in this thread):

DIRTY DANCING 2: HAVANA NIGHTS: An update of the 1987 hit, following a Cuban ballroom dancer’s fling with a pool boy. (November)

I'm not really surprised by the number of sequels--studios will try to make one for any movie that is a box office success--but this is just kind of odd. Are they hoping to take a movie unrelated to the original and give it a box office boost by slapping the name of a popular 80s movie on it?

Bright Cucumber

Artisan just released this teaser trailer for "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights" on the quicktime website.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/artisa...ghavananights/

and according to IMDB:


Personally, if a sequel HAD to be made, I would of titled it: 2 Dirty 2 Dance

Goldberg74

I remember them talking about this when it was going to be Ricky Martin and Natalie Portman.

My wife is going to go gonzo over this news!

DGibFen

You have to be kidding...

right?

Mikey

oh God no..as if the first film wasn't enough

TomOpus

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner..."

But I can think of similar places to put this film

UAIOE

I hope this is some belated April Fool's joke.




Did this movie REALLY need a sequal?

MrGoat00

I was worried about this when i first heard they were doing a sequel. but once I found out that it would be set in Havana, I was like, there is NO WAY this can suck, I repeat... THIS CANNOT SUCK, because anything set in Havana has got to be kick arse. Ya dig?

mookiemeister

I enjoyed the first movie. Can't wait for this movie.

jaymart

I think it's not so much a sequel as a reinterpretation of the original.

RocShemp

When this movie was filming here in Puerto Rico it was being advertised as a prequel to the first movie that is set in 1950's Cuba (or perhaps earlier since I don't remember the date anymore). It's really a prequel in nameonly since none of the characters are related to those of the first film and the title Dirty Dancing 2 was only used to capitalize of the success of the first film.

Bright Cucumber

So, if IMDB is not wrong (they goof up info sometimes), how is going to be in the prequel? Its not going to be one of those Terminator paradoxes, is it?

RocShemp

Bright Cucumber,
He plays a different character than he did in the first film and, unless things changed during filming, he has only one line. When the two leads are going to a party he says something like "have the time of your lives." As cheezy as that sounds, it's true. He just gets a cameo and his line is a reference to a song from the first film.

DRG

I am honestly surprised they didn't go with Dirtier Dancing.

Or would that be Dirtierer Dancing?

Bright Cucumber

I think the idea of the movie being set in havana in the 50's is a fresh and interesting concept...

...but yes, that is a cheesy line! LOL

I can picture it in my mind: as he says the line, the camera zooms in on his face as he breaks the fourth wall and looks directly at the camera and winks...

Trigger

housewives will love it.

glassdragon

I say if you're not going to have ANY of the original actors in it then don't call it a damn sequel... how hard would it be to think of a name for this and make it it's own movie...

Slasher

Dirty Dancing 2: Electric Boogaloo



Well somebody had to say it.

Brain Stew

Wow, by the looks of the movie Havana was an idyllic playground before Castro ruined it . Another revisionist movie set to help show, that the past wasn't EVER full of problems. Well, at least problems dancing can't fix.

danol

Your not old enough to appreciate the way we danced in the 1963, for you weren't even an itch in your daddy's pants yet. LOL


P.S. I love this film it's about the time I was a teenager, "Do you Love Me" I danced at our Meuser swimming pool, where we had our saturday night dances. You have to have been there to appreciate a movie like this. I am 56 Years young when it comes to rembering how we danced.

Blake

Well, as stated earlier, it's a re-make, not really a sequel or prequel - if you watched the trailer, you would have seen it called a "retelling of a classic love story."

Also, while I kind of agree that if you aren't going to have the same actors, if you're a studio, and you own the rights to the name Dirty Dancing - why not just slap it on the film and hope to draw in those who love the first one...

thecrazydude

they did this movie before and it was called "Dance with Me"

kantboy

Ah, so those people that were looking for dancers with a "latin, voodoo flavor" were using them for this movie. Sometimes producers need to be shot.

RocShemp

kantboy,
Yup. Some friends of mine tried land roles as extras but were never called back.

What part of PR are you from?

cdollaz

We saw the trailer for this at the theater the other night and it elicited a lot of laughter from the audience. Not the good kind of laughter.