‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel: How a Patrick Swayze hologram could ruin everything

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told Deadline from the Cannes Film Festival, adding that the production is in conversation with Swayze’s estate. “Johnny is a part of Baby’s journey in the story.”One read of that and I can’t disguise — I’ve got ANGRY EYES!While Levine’s exact intentions and artistic vision are unclear — he did respond to a request for comment — one can’t help but wonder if 62-year-old Jennifer Grey, who memorably played Baby in the original, will somehow preposterously be made to cha-cha with Swayze from beyond the grave.

If the film’s plan was to simply flashback to old footage from the original — here we are balancing on a log! You’re tickling my arm! — sources say there would be little point in communicating with the estate about something so common. “The film company owns the images,” said a producer about the archival footage.Another entertainment big shot agrees that the way the news was delivered sounds sneaky. “You have to wonder why, if they were going to make this kind of announcement, why they didn’t at least enlist a representative from the estate to make this statement in partnership,” said a film executive who has worked closely with Lionsgate and other studios.

Lionsgate did not respond to request for comment.The director’s vague niceties sound alarmingly familiar in this sad era of tech gone loco.

When actor Peter Cushing was electronically exhumed to play Grand Moff Tarkin in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” — looking like a sullen Gumby — the visual effects supervisor told the Guardian, “this work was done with a great deal of affection and care.” What a crock.A few years later when the “Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker” team awkwardly wedged in archival footage of the late Carrie Fisher in a totally new.