While nothing going forward, let's go back

While Amanda isn't moving forward with anything yet, I decided to use this blog to remind everyone (fans, critics, maybe even Amanda herself) how awesome, amazing, and talented she is. Here is one of my absolute favorite moments starring Amanda ever, a clip of her singing You Can't Stop the Beat in Hairspray!



This moment in the movie made me sit up and take notice, and realize again how special Ms. Amanda is!

Side note, Hairspray 2 is not happening according to director Adam Shankman himself. Who needs a sequel when the original is made up of great moments like this one?

Comment or tweet me your favorite Amanda moments, and we will feature them!

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Preparing for Hairspray 2?

Could Amanda be getting her voice in gear for Hairspray 2? She tweets:

"Had an awesome time tonight w/ the best singing teacher in the world & one of my best friends Mister Eric Vetro :)"

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Amanda talks Hairspray 2, jealous girls, and new movies on the set of Easy A

Teen Television caught up with Amanda on the set of Easy A today! In this short Q&A Amanda talks jealous girls, fitting in, her experiences so far on the set of Easy A, and whether she's involved in Hairspray 2!

TeenHollywood: Are you in Footloose?

Amanda: I'm not in it. But it's okay, I'm doing Hairspray 2 so no problem. I can't give any information but it's being written.

TeenHollywood: Are you all having fun and becoming friends on the Easy A set here? It looks like you are having fun kicking back and working together.

Amanda: Yeah, we're having a great time. It's a fun, young cast and I got to work with Lisa Kudrow who I'm a huge fan of and it's great, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Hayden Church, Stanley Tucci. It's amazing. We have such a great script and Screen Gems is amazing so I'm really happy. So far, it's been extremely fun. We've been bonding, hanging out and having a really good time.

TeenHollywood: Did you have a "normal" high school experience or were you home-schooled?

Amanda: I went to high school and I also home-schooled. I was in and out because I was doing shows so I would do school on set but, because I'm very social and I liked being around my friends, I would make both work.

TeenHollywood: Did you have a "mean girl" experience in high school?

Amanda: Yeah. I did. There were some girls who were jealous and mean. But, I was really shy when I was in high school because I was getting so much attention [working] that when I was in school, I really didn't want it because I wanted to fit in and have friends. I didn't want people to think I thought I was that great so I sort of downplayed it. But, then I realized you have to be true to yourself and your friends will like you no matter what and it's cool.

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White lipstick, and Penny Pingleton blowing up the world?

More details have recently been discussed by Hairspray director Adam Shankman, and rest easy, Hairspray fans...the sequel won't be as outlandish as was first reported.

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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'Hairspray 2' set for July 2010

MTV Movies Blog today revealed exclusively the plot details for Hairspray 2, which is set to begin shooting as early as April of 2009.

Producers Scott Whittman and Marc Shaimain, along with director Adam Shankman are attached from the first film, with no other cast members announced or confirmed yet.

The plot details, according to Shaiman:

"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.”

What do you think of these plot details? Is this the story that's going to lure the original cast back for another time around?

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Travolta unlikely for Hairspray sequel

John Travolta seems unlikey to reprise his role as Edna Turnblad in the planned Hairspray 2. He told Australia's Sunday Daily Sun, "I think once is enough. I did it and I did it well but I'm not a big sequel guy."

Playbill pointed out that Travolta did do two sequels, so don't lose hope yet! Adam Shankman is also still for the idea.

"I never thought of musicals as franchises, but it certainly worked with 'High School Musical,' and the idea of working with that cast again, and creating new material and music, is a dream come true. John (Waters) has such an original and extraordinary voice; we all can't wait to see what he has come up with."

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No 'Dinner' for Amanda, but maybe more 'Hairspray'

Amanda recently told the press that she is not going to be involved in the revival of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner on Broadway after all, but Hairspray costar Queen Latifah further sparked the rumors of a sequel to the hit movie musical. The actress received a "secret e-mail" about the project and was told to "keep her ears open".

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'Hairspray 2' optioned by New Line Cinema

A sequel to the $200 million smash hit musical Hairspray is in the works!



New Line Cinema has asked original Hairspray creater John Waters to write a treatment for the film, with hopes to have it in theaters in July of 2010. Already reportedly in for the sequel are original director Adam Shankman, lyricists Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan.

Although no cast has been announced, the studio hopes to reunite the entire ensemble from the first film.

What do you guys think? Would you like to see Amanda don Penny's pigtails again? I sure would!

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