{"id":525661,"date":"2010-04-13T05:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T09:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=100287"},"modified":"2010-04-13T05:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T09:51:01","slug":"chace-crawford-drops-out-of-%e2%80%9cfootloose%e2%80%9d-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525661","title":{"rendered":"Chace Crawford Drops Out Of \u201cFootloose\u201d Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img\nsrc=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Chace-Crawford-Out-Of-Footloose-Remake-499x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chace Crawford Out Of Footloose Remake\" width=\"499\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-100289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chace Crawford has cut loose from Paramount&#8217;s <em>Footloose<\/em> reboot. Now who will don the tight jeans!<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, the <em>Gossip Girl<\/em> hunk has pulled out of plans to play Ren McCormick &#8212; a big city teen who moves to a small town where dancing has been outlawed &#8212; in a remake of Kevin Bacon&#8217;s 1984 breakout hit. <span\nid=\"more-100287\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prior to casting Crawford, Zac Efron was set to play smooth movin&#8217; McCormack. After garnering fame in <em>High School Musical<\/em> and <em>Hairspray<\/em>, he decided he simply wanted to step out of the realm of musicals to avoid the dread Hollywood typecast. Producers have not yet decided whether they&#8217;ll approach Efron again, begin casting another actor, or scrap plans for the remake.<\/p>\n<p>There is one bit of good news: After numerous castings, the film has finally landed director.<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Snake Moan&#8217;s<\/em> Craig Brewer has been announced as the man for the job, <em>Variety<\/em> has learned. Brewer will adapt the rewritten script after impressing studio executives with his Oscar-winning musical drama, 2005&#8217;s <em>Hustle And Flow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Production is not yet underway on the new <em>Footloose<\/em>, which is set to open in theaters in June 2011. Former <em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em> champ is still on course to portray Ren&#8217;s love interest, Ariel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chace Crawford has cut loose from Paramount&#8217;s Footloose reboot. Now who will don the tight jeans! According to Entertainment Weekly, the Gossip Girl hunk has pulled out of plans to play Ren McCormick &#8212; a big city teen who moves to a small town where dancing has been outlawed &#8212; in a remake of Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}