Birth nameChristopher Chace Crawford Birth information18 July 1985, Lubbock, Texas, USA BioNo information available

The biggest enemy of the Footloose remake isn't a music-hating preacher, but its own Creative Differences. After it finally recovered from the loss of Zac Efron by recruiting Chace Crawford and Julianne Hough, Variety reports that Footloose has now lost its captain. Director Kenny Oretega has left the project due to "differences over tone and budget."
Reportedly, Ortega's vision included elaborate dance sequences and a budget of $30 million or more. But Paramount's Adam Goodwin had something different in mind. He saw Footloose with a little less dancing, a little less music, and a lot more edge. He was also hoping the budget would come in around $25 million. Who is right? I don't know. If you want something closer to the original, I'd say Goodwin is spot on. Kevin Bacon did his lithe dance moves in barns and car washes. It was on the cheap. It was also pretty edgy (relatively »
- Elisabeth Rappe

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I know, I know, it’s a remake of “Footloose”, why even bother following it? It’s definitely hurting my street cred, that’s for sure. But I can’t help it, the original movie with Kevin Bacon and John Lithgow (about a city kid who moves to a rural town where music is outlawed) is an old favorite of mine, and I still find it very watchable when I run across it on cable TV nowadays. A remake with “Gossip Girl” star Chace Crawford and “Dancing with the Stars’” Julianne Hough is fast approaching, but it looks like they’ll have to do it without director Kenny Ortega. An old pro with kiddie musicals, Kenny Ortega directed all three highly profitable “High School Musical” movies for Disney, and was poised to make “Footloose” with “elaborately staged musical numbers”. Not so fast, my friends. Paramount Pictures had a different idea, »
- Nix

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Much like his original chosen star, Zac Efron, director Kenny Ortega is no longer putting on his dancing shoes for "Footloose."
Efron quit the production, then replaced by Chace Crawford, now, Ortega has left the film! Drama!
All this drama is heightened by the fact that Ortega directed the expected-to-be-huge Michael Jackson concert film, "This is It."
Paramount is in search of a new director, and the studio insists that production will still begin in March when Crawford's on hiatus from "Gossip Girl." "Dancing with the Stars" dancer and part-time country singer, Julianne Hough, is set to co-star.
So why did Ortega leave the production?
Well, Paramount said it's because of the budget, while Ortega issued a press statement saying "Coming off the extraordinary project, Michael Jackson's `This is It,' director Kenny Ortega has decided it is premature for him to commit to his next film and will »
- Manny

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