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"Hairspray" Respritzed
Beehives are coming back to the big screen.
Sixteen years after the original hit theaters, New Line Cinema has announced plans to remake John Waters' Hairspray.
This time around, though, the ozone-thinning flick will take its cue from the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which is based upon Waters' celluloid camp classic.
The project brings Hairspray full circle for the studio.
The kitschy comedy, which follows the trials and tribulations of a chunky star-struck teen and her quest to integrate a local Baltimore TV dance show, was released by New Line in 1988 and quickly garnered a cult following.
In 2002, it was successfully adapted to Broadway, where it became an instant smash, snagged rave reviews and won eight Tony Awards.
Based on the overwhelmingly positive response to the retro show, New Line co-chairmen and co-CEOs Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne decided the time was right to revive the era of big hair, sock-hops and doo-wop for an even wider audience, hence the makeover.
"I couldn't think of a better way to continue the life of this fantastic musical," Shaye said in a statement released Friday. "Hairspray is an irresistible story--on film, onstage and now on film again. In each form it takes, Hairspray is an expression of the power and universality of John's original vision."
The original Hairspray starred a then-plump Ricki Lake along with Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Debbie Harry, Jerry Stiller and Waters' favorite cross-dressing star, Divine.
The studio has hired Marc Shaiman, who composed the music and lyrics for the Broadway version with Scott Wittman, to write the score and supervise the tunes for the irreverent update.
"Our goal is to make the best newfangled/old-fashioned film musical ever," Shaiman said, adding that he hoped "to retain John Waters' flavor and yet appeal to all the people it's appealing to on Broadway."
Waters, who's known for celebrating bad taste in such trailer-trash classics as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Polyester, won't be helming the new Hairspray. Instead, the filmmaker, who owns the right to the original, is expected to serve as a consultant for the newest incarnation, just as he did for the stage production.
There has been no word yet on who will direct or whether Tony winners Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur will headline the flick.
If all goes as planned, the restyled Hairspray will likely hit theaters in 2006.
Hairspray is the second major musical along the Great White Way to follow the screen-to-stage-to-screen trajectory.
In January, Universal Pictures announced plans to make a new Producers film based on the Broadway version starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
The two will reprise their stage roles as fading impresario Max Bialystock and his hapless accountant Leo Bloom opposite Nicole Kidman, who will play the part of their Swedish secretary.
On another note, the London musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, adapted from the 1968 MGM kids' magical-car fantasy film, is scheduled to premiere at Broadway's Ford Theater in April.
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