Kenny Ortega to direct Dirty Dancing remake

Lionsgate is remaking Dirty Dancing, in line with the 1987 Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze film of the identical title.The initial film's choreographer Kenny Ortega (Senior High School Musical, Michael Jackson's Here It Is) will direct.The studio stated it's also in talks with Eleanor Bergstein, the author and co-producer from the original film, and it is keen to create her aboard inside a creating capacity.Ortega stated the opportunity to direct the film "was like coming back home"."Becoming an adult within the '60s about the party area assisted define me like a person so that as a painter,Inch he added."Patrick Swayze set the bar for males dancing within the movies as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire did before him. In my opinion everywhere you appear there's evidence the talent is available and that i can't wait to start the entire process of finding the following breakout triple-risks."Actress Jennifer Gray, who performed Baby within the original, also backed the project via Twitter."I really like @Kennyortega and trust he is going to do something #DirtyDancingRemake," she tweeted, adding via her publicist, "I am so looking forward to what is the news and i believe there's nobody better to get this done than my beloved Kenny Ortega who's as responsible as anybody for the prosperity of the first. I can not wait to determine what he's going related to it."