He’s a Star! ‘Footloose’ Remake Starring Zac Efron Fast-Tracked
Anyone who saw High School Musical 3 knows that Zac Efron was bigger than that movie. He knew it, too. Efron had better chemistry with the camera than he did any of his costars. He charmed it like he was trying to take it home at the end of the night.
Yes, Efron is a big enough deal now to get away with it. But he still needed the $42 million dollar weekend to prove his worth. Thanks that huge opening for High School Musical 3, Paramount is fast-tracking their Footloose remake with Efron in the lead. Production should start in the spring (for a late-2009 release?).
So the tweens are the target, right? Not so, says Variety:
Unlike HSM3, Footloose will aim for an older teen and adult demo. Efron is just about set in a deal that will pay him a mid-seven-figure salary and give him script approval.
No surprise there. At my HSM3 screening, there were just as many screaming twenty-somethings and mothers in the audience as there were teens. (After one scene, the screams were followed by disappointed groans when Efron didn’t show his abs.)
Stay tuned.
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