During press for 17 Again, (Shankman produced) he told a website that the film is in the process of hiring a writer, and that they will only "borrow" from the outlandish ideas presented by John Waters.
He told Collider:
There are some really funny ideas, we don't have a writer for it yet. But there are very funny ideas that me and Mark came up with. John Waters wrote a treatment that was so insane. That was really a sequel to his version of the movie. And Penny blew up the world at a certain point out of anger. It was this crazy thing. But we saw it as something to borrow from, so we took some of the less insane ideas. We are just hiring a writer now, and then we will get into it.
The ideas of Zac Efron's Link using drugs will probably be thrown out, and Ms. Baltimore Crabs aka Michelle Pfeiffer will probably not return as the villian.
I think that’s probably part of the treatment that won’t get used. And in the treatment, [Efron’s drug use] is an accident. That’s the kind of stuff where you’re like: ‘Yeah, I don’t know if that’s going to work.
There’ll be a change in villains. [John Waters’ treatment] is ideas that we’re just going to pick and choose from, and we’ll see what happens with it. Probably [no Michelle Pfeiffer]. Not because we didn’t love her, but because we just thought different adversaries [would be necessary].
Maybe Amanda could at least blow glass out of a window, if not the world, by singing...come on writers, give her a solo number!
The sequel has a working title of Hairspray 2: White Lipstick.
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