Zac Efron is collaborating to work, once again, with 17 Again director Burr Steers. The project is a different venture for both, an adaptation of the novel “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.”
Ben Sherwood wrote the book, concerning a caretaker at a cemetery who manages to have weekly meetings with a younger brother whose accidental death he believes was his fault.
It doesn’t look like Efron will be singing and dancing in this story, which is a good path to take while he comes back around to film Footloose after Charlie St. Cloud.
If all goes as planned, production starts in July.
High School Musical 3 delivered a $42 million opening weekend and Paramount Pictures decided to fasttrack Footloose, as a Zack Efron and Kenny Ortega production next spring. Efron is set to star while Ortega directs and possibly choreography.
According to the Variety article, the studio has brought on Peter Sollect the director of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist to rewrite the Jon Hartmere script.
Once Efron makes this deal he will be paid a mid-seven-figure salary and give him script approval. He is moving up in the business folks!
Ortega has been working on the development of Footloose for two years. It looks like his hard work is coming to fruition with the fasttrack of new songs that will complement some of the memorable original tunes of the Herb Ross-directed film.
The original Footloose wasn’t a musical. It’s screenwriter Dean Pitchford wrote lyrics for songs that included the Kenny Loggins title song as well as “Let’s Hear It for the Boy,” “Almost Paradise” and “Holding Out for a Hero.”
Variety reports that at least some of those tunes are expected to be in the new movie.
Footloose created one of the biggest-selling soundtracks of its time and made a star of Kevin Bacon.
With Efron already a star, the movie could set the stage for even more musicals on the big screen.
17 Again previewed before HSM 3 in movie theaters this weekend. It is an awesome vehicle to firmly hold Efron in the spotlight. He can act, sing and dance.
You count them. El Capitan Theatre held a thousand lucky fans on Saturday, August 23 to celebrate High School Musical 3: Senior Year, opening Oct. 24.
The lucky thousand were super surprised when stars from High School Musical 3: Senior Year- Zac Efron, Ashley Tisdale, Olesya Rulin, KayCee Stroh, Chris Warren Jr., Ryne Sanborn, Justin Martin, Matt Prokop and Jemma McKenzie-Brown- showed up to cheer them on as they participated in the Ultimate Fan Pep Rally. To top the evening off, a sneak peek of HSM 3. Those are lucky fans.
Although I wasn’t a luck y fan that night, I did see Vanessa Hudgens, who wasn’t at the El Capitan pep rally, perform the night before perform at the State Fair in Sacramento. She was awesome. The place was packed with screaming fans young and old.
venture for both, an adaptation of the novel “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.”
