kevin bacon should do a cameo in this

Now correct me if I'm wrong here. But wasn't footloose all about music being banned and dancing also being banned back at the dawn of rock so to speak. Where music and dancing were seen as evil?
Who in the right Fcking mind would try to update that for today? There's no town on earth let alone america that would outlaw music these days. Especially since technology pretty much made it so everything plays it. My god hollywood is getting desperate. This is nuts. "Put down that ipod, unplug that laptop, don't turn on the HD tv. Music and dance are the devil." It doesn't work nowadays.

Now it is getting awkward. Hollywood just doesn't know when to stop. A good updated version would be someone trying to get people to make original movies in hollywood. But the studios don't allow fresh scripts to be read or people to speak original ideas out-loud.

Hey ttop33, I guess you don't read the news. I 17yo boy was just suspended from his school for going to a dance at another school, because dancing and music are banned at his school, so yes, this is still very timely.

And what is the 1 song that made this movie famous. This film had one of the biggest soundtracks with many famous songs, the movie was a huge hit when it came out. I remember seeing it in the theater several times with friends

Hollywood is crap.

Ugh! NO! The town did not BAN music. It was a very religious town, as such, the pastor was sort of a leader. He frowned on rock music and dancing because he felt-due to the death of his son-that it lead to promiscuity and drug use and drinking. The school-headed by people in the congregation-therefor did not hold any dances. So no, it was OUTLAWED it was just heavily frowned on. And it didn't take place during the dawn of rock, the movie was made and set in 1984.

This movie wouldnt really be able to work today unless set in a similar-and heavily disconnected-rural town. The internet allows us to move around without physically moving. So, even being stuck in a town that frowns on 'rock and dancing' wouldn't mean much.

I hesitate to concede that maybe a genre change would be neccesary to facilitate the plot. Maybe he likes hip hop and the town he's in doesn't and yadda yadda yadda. I still don't feel it'd hold the same resonance and Im certain it would turn into another dance-flick cliche. The 80s were about excess, rebellion and music. We're in a much more mellow time for teens, It seems to be more about tech, sex and politics.