{"id":42981,"date":"2016-03-22T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42981"},"modified":"2016-03-22T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:57:25","slug":"greenwood-joins-dirty-dancing-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/03\/greenwood-joins-dirty-dancing-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood Joins Dirty Dancing Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ABC<\/em>&#8216;s remake of <em>Dirty Dancing<\/em> will feature <em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>&#8216; <strong>Bruce Greenwood<\/strong> playing an overprotective father.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood will join the project, taking on the role of &#8220;Baby&#8217;s&#8221; father, Dr. Jake Houseman.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dirty Dancing<\/em> will be a three hour musical, which &#8220;follows in the footsteps of the 1987 hit film starring <strong>Patrick Swayze <\/strong>and<strong> Jennifer Grey<\/strong>, and is set in the early 1960s. The film centers on Baby (<strong>Abigail Breslin<\/strong>), an innocent young woman who vacations with her affluent parents at a Catskill Mountains resort and gets swept off her feet by Johnny (<strong>Colt Prattes<\/strong>), a handsome, working-class dance instructor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood&#8217;s character Jake, is a &#8220;well-known, type-A heart surgeon [who] met his wife, Marjorie (<strong>Debra Messing<\/strong>), waiting tables at the same Catskills resort where he is now bringing his family \u2014 his first time back in a decade. Jake does his best to protect his beloved younger daughter, Baby, as she develops a summer crush on Johnny and makes friends with the staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerry Orbach<\/strong> played the role of Jake Houseman in the original movie.<\/p>\n<p>No premiere date for <em>Dirty Dancing<\/em> has been set yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC&#8216;s remake of Dirty Dancing will feature Star Trek into Darkness&#8216; Bruce Greenwood playing an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[8273,8795,2422],"class_list":["post-42981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-abc","tag-dirty-dancing","tag-greenwood"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GreenwoodDirtyDancing.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42983,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42981\/revisions\/42983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}