The 1987 classic movie Dirty Dancing - a romantic drama film, is to be remade for TV, by US network ABC.
Abigail Breslin, the Oscar-nominated actress, who currently stars in horror comedy show "Scream Queens," will play the lead role of Baby Houseman.
The three-hour adaptation will be directed by Wayne Blair, the Australian behind 2012 film "The Sapphires."
Dirty Dancing, which was released in 1987 to incredible pandemonium, has been given the green light by ABC networks to be turned into a television movie musical, confirms EW.
Set in the summer of 1963, Dirty Dancing is the song-and-dance love story about 17-year-old Baby, originally played by Jennifer Grey, who falls for her working-class dance instructor, Johnny Castle - played by late,.
The appeal of the original Dirty Dancing has been challenging to re-capture in the past.
There was the infamous 2004 sequel-cum-reimagining, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, which transferred the story to Cuba in 1958.
That ABC would dive into the TV movie musical genre comes as little surprise.
NBC has found rating gold with its live musicals "The Sound of Music," "Peter Pan" and "The Wiz", the latter of which also became a critical success.
Fox, meanwhile, in January will debut "Grease: Live" and is prepping a tapped TV movie musical based on "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" with Laverne Cox set to star.
Since the role Abigail has somewhat shed her cute image and turned towards the small screen starring in MTV's Scream Queens .
The TV movie musical version of the film does not have a release date just yet, but the report confirms it will be approximately three hours long.
Music will be done by Adam Anders and Peer Astrom, both of whom worked on Glee while Andy Blankenbuehler from Broadway’s Hamilton will choreograph.
Rumors of a "Dirty Dancing" remake have circulated for some time with a Lionsgate TV-backed miniseries (with original movie choreographer Kenny Ortega directing) set to begin shooting in North Carolina but was canceled in July.
It is currently unclear when the ABC remake will begin production or be ready for air.
