Dirty Dancing Remake Starring Abigail Breslin Marches Determinedly Toward TV

You might think Dirty Dancing’s status as a beloved classic would ensure nobody dares to remake it, but you would be wrong and also you maybe haven’t been paying attention to the entertainment industry for the last decade: ABC is getting close to green-lighting a TV remake featuring Abigail Breslin.

That’s according to Deadline. It’s all but a go, pending one more casting decision. Fortunately this won’t be a Sound of Music Live!-style stunt but rather a straightforward TV version, and it’ll remain set in the 1960s. The team:

Executive Produced by Allison Shearmur (Lionsgate’s Hunger Games franchise) and Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote the screenplay for the original movie, Dirty Dancing was adapted for television by Jessica Sharzer (Scream Queens), with Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) set to direct and Tony winner Andy Blankenbuehler, who most recently choreographed the hit Broadway musical Hamilton on board as choreographer.

No matter how good this is, it’ll mostly serve as a reminder how much we all miss Patrick Swayze and Jerry Orbach.