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Chace Crawford Wants Kevin Bacon's Role in the "Footloose" Remake

Posted by Lindy Parker

 

Now that Zac Efron hates musicals, Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford is apparently more than ready to take his place in the upcoming remake of Footloose.  We like to think Chace has just been waiting in the proverbial wings, ready to seize his opportunity the second Zac Efron drops a project.

Actually, part of us wishes Efron were still interested --  we would be so on top of a pretty boy showdown...

A source reports that Crawford is intent on starring in the movie, but the television show that has made him a star, Gossip Girl, may be getting in his dancing way.  "There's a big overlap of when he'd have to shoot Footloose and the next season of Gossip Girl," my source said.

And Gossip Girl producers haven't been able to rejigger Crawford's shooting schedule to accommodate Footloose. "Chace may be hiring a big-league attorney to come in and figure out how to make it work," the source said. (E! Online)

 See what we mean? Don't mess with a pretty boy when an opportunity to dance shirtless in an abandoned warehouse is on the line.  However, we're not 100% on board with Chace Crawford as Ren McCormack for the new millennium, largely because nothing in body of work on Gossip Girl seems to indicate that he has either the acting or dancing chops to get this done right.  That said, if Drew Barrymore can stop talking out of the side of her mouth for Grey Gardens, then maybe anything's possible.

An Us Weekly Poll has fans split almost down the middle on the issue...

 

 Thoughts?

Previously:

Zac Efron Now Hates Musicals

Top Five Muppet Remakes We'd Like To See 

Gossip Girl: Schmutz Happens


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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She now writes for nerve.com's TV blog, "The Remote Island." She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

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