Hairspray 2 dancing..err..moving forward
God, I would love to be in a room when Adam Shankman and Marc Shaiman talk to John Waters about his treatment for a sequel to the hit musical Hairspray. “No, John, Tracy cannot stick a two-litter bottle in her vagina. And no, there will be no shit eating. That’s final.”
But considering these are the guys who got a song about male prostitution into a PG-rated musical, I can’t wait to see what they’ll cook up next.
MTV Movies Blog caught up with Shaiman to discuss Hairspray 2:
As for the plot, he said: “People hate Tracy (Nikki Blonsky) because she doesn’t lose weight. They ask ‘Now that you’re famous, why won’t you lose weight?’. And Link (Efron) experiments with drugs. Throughout half the movie, he has an ongoing dialogue with three pimples on his forehead.”
“Edna (John Travolta) loses weight, but sees her husband (Christopher Walken) lusting after fat women,” Shaiman laughed, citing one of the musical numbers he’s particularly eager to write. “And so, she finally breaks down and runs over to a snack table. Just within one number, she gets fat again; gaining 20 pounds at a time. [Her fat] pops out, and by the end of the song she’s completely at her old weight again.”
Personally, I would have rather seen Mr. Turnblad turn into a feeder instead of just a chubby chaser. I guess there’s always Hairspray 3.
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