When CBS All Access rebrands as Paramount+ next year, it will also sport a new series – a TV reboot of the classic 1983 dance feature “Flashdance” which launched the career of Jennifer Beals.
Beals starred as steel mill worker and young dancer with dreams of becoming a professional ballerina, and was famed for several dance sequences set to iconic songs like “What a Feeling” and “Maniac”. It raked in more than $200 million globally and becoming the third highest-earner in the U.S. in 1983.
The new take will revolve around a young Black woman with ballet dreams and a strip club reality who struggles to find her place in the world while navigating romance, money, art, friendship and how to love herself.
Tracy McMillan (“Good Girls Revolt”) will pen the script for the Paramount Television Studios drama currently in development.
Angela Robinson will executive produce and direct the pilot for the potential series. Original film associate producer Lynda Obst is attached and will also executive produce.
Paramount+ is also developing a “Grease” prequel, a revival of “The Game,” a behind-the-scenes scripted take on The Godfather, and more “Star Trek” shows than there are Kardashians.
Source: The Wrap
