Untitled Dirty Dancing Sequel (2025)

[Alex...]

Title: Untitled Dirty Dancing Sequel

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Director: Jonathan Levine

Cast: Jennifer Grey

Release: 2025

Plot: Baby takes us back to Kellerman’s Resort for a story of summer, young romance, and dancing.

 

[Alex...]

Jennifer Grey to return

‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel With Jennifer Grey Sets Director, Eyes 2024 Release

Jonathan Levine, the filmmaker behind the comedy “Long Shot’ and tear-jerker “50/50,” is taking his talents to the Catskills. He’s been hired by Lionsgate to direct a …

variety.com

 

[SD_Brian]

Just kidding.

 

[Nick*Z]

Says something about the dearth of creative talents today that they continue to crib from and rape movies over thirty years old, hoping against hope to rekindle the magic of the originals.

Never happens. Never will.

This story perhaps could have survived a follow-up as in 'what happened to Johnny Castle and Baby once they left Kellerman's to start a family of their own.

Without Swayze? Don't waste my time.

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Dirtier Dancing?

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

This story perhaps could have survived a follow-up as in 'what happened to Johnny Castle and Baby once they left Kellerman's to start a family of their own.

Without Swayze? Don't waste my time.

It's not just Swayze's passing. The original Dirty Dancing was about the end of an era when it came to the Catskills as a Jewish summer retreat. Assuming that the same time has passed for Baby as has passed for Jennifer Gray, this movie would be set around the year 2000.

Based on the article that @Alex... posted, it sounds like they're going to cheat a little and set it during the mid-nineties. But even then, Kellerman's would either have gone out of business decades earlier or be a sad crumbling shell of what it once was. Grossinger's, the primary inspiration for Kellerman's, closed in 1986 and burned to the ground in 2022. The Concord hung on until 1998, the Nevele until 2009, and Kutsher's until 2013. But none of them could be described as exactly thriving in the 1990s. The cultural, technological, and socioeconomic forces that gave rise to the Borscht Belt simply didn't exist any longer.

 

[Nick*Z]

It's not just Swayze's passing. The original Dirty Dancing was about the end of an era when it came to the Catskills as a Jewish summer retreat. Assuming that the same time has passed for Baby as has passed for Jennifer Gray, this movie would be set around the year 2000.

Based on the article that @Alex... posted, it sounds like they're going to cheat a little and set it during the mid-nineties. But even then, Kellerman's would either have gone out of business decades earlier or be a sad crumbling shell of what it once was. Grossinger's, the primary inspiration for Kellerman's, closed in 1986 and burned to the ground in 2022. The Concord hung on until 1998, the Nevele until 2009, and Kutsher's until 2013. But none of them could be described as exactly thriving in the 1990s. The cultural, technological, and socioeconomic forces that gave rise to the Borscht Belt simply didn't exist any longer.

All that you say is true. Things come suitable to the time. A movie like Dirty Dancing could only have been made in the eighties. Ditto for Road House. The present atrocity masquerading as a reboot of that Swayze franchise is painful to watch. This will be too!