《Dirty Dancing》The sequel does not use AI to resurrect Swayze, the producer talks about Grey's return and new stories in the 1990s

Don't worry, we won't use AI to bring him back.“ Talking about how the sequel to Dirty Dancing will commemorate Patrick Swayze, producer Nina Jacobson gave this clear answer.

On October 17, Jacobson spoke with editor-in-chief Brent Long about the new film being developed at the IndieWire” Future of Filmmaking Summit in Los Angeles.Jennifer Gray will reprise her role as Frances "Baby" Houseman, and the story moves to the 1990s, adding new young actors and romances.Gray also joins in to discuss the character's next chapter and why “Baby” resonates with so many people.

Jacobson wanted to maintain the grit and mood of the 1987 original.“When I watched it for the first time, I thought it was a very glossy entertainment movie.Watching it now, it looks a bit like an independent film.” She mentioned that the original film dared to touch on many themes, including the abortion subplot in romance films; if it were placed in today's development process, such a plot might receive a lot of revision opinions.She used the analogy of adapting novels: movies and books cannot be exactly the same, but the work should bring similar feelings.The team wanted this young love story to retain the adventurous spirit of the original film and also evoke the emotions of the time.

Swayze played Johnny Castle, who taught “Baby” how to dance in the original film. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2009.The sequel will have to deal with the co-star's absence, Jacobson said,“How to get people to mourn him in a movie”, is an issue that needs to be dealt with carefully during production.

Jacobson's Color Force joined the Lionsgate sequel this year, as well as the FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette and the upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.《Dirty Dancing》There was previously Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, so this project of Gray's return is not the first time that the series has launched a follow-up movie.

The summit also invited Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to discuss the production of Project Hail Mary, and Bill Hader shared the experience of his first feature film They Know.The event is supported by AT&T Untold Stories, a program in partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival that provides $1.2 million, mentorship and production support to a new generation of filmmakers.

In the same conversation, she also explained why Crazy Rich Asians turned to the HBO series.The team had been trying to develop a sequel to the 2018 film for a long time, but the romantic comedy had already resolved its core emotional conflict at the end of the first film, and it was not easy to write another movie.The people who jointly promoted the project in the original film department have also resigned, and the development intention of the film is different from that of the past; HBO is very interested in Kevin Kwan's series of novels.The novel's large number of characters and melodramatic plot twists had to be deleted in the film adaptation, leaving room for the ongoing series to be re-expanded.Jacobson felt that the television format suited the scale of the original series.

Speaking of the Crazy Rich Asians cast reunion, Jacobson recalled that when the movie first came out and everyone's careers were growing rapidly, it was hard to imagine that everyone could be cast in a TV series.Things have changed now: “Now everyone misses each other very much.Television really is one of the best ways to get us back together because there's so much that people love about the movies that it's hard to take care of it all in one sequel.”