Zac Efron might be done with High School Musical after the third installment is released in theaters this October, but he’s not retiring his dancing shoes just yet.
Yay!
New Line Cinema has made a deal with Hairspray mastermind John Waters to write a treatment for a sequel to the 2007 movie starring Zacquisha, based on the Broadway musical, based on his beloved ’80s film starring Ricki Lake.
Planning to return are director-choreographer Adam Shankman, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and Tony-winning songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who will write new songs for the film.
No cast has been engaged yet, and none of the stars of Hairspray had sequel options.
Uh oh!
You want Zac back?????
It’ll probably cost you a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
“I never thought of musicals as franchises, but it certainly worked with ├óΓé¼╦£High School Musical,├óΓé¼Γäó and the idea of working with that cast again, and creating new material and music, is a dream come true,” says director Shankman. “John (Waters) has such an original and extraordinary voice; we all can├óΓé¼Γäót wait to see what he has come up with.”
The studio hopes to ahave the film out by summer of 2010.