After the soar away success of "Hairspray" at the global Box Office last year, Warner Bros. were quick to green light a sequel with one eye on reuniting the eclectic cast (including John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Zac Efron). Director Adam Shankman is back in the hot seat and has recently been chatting with Entertainment Weekly about the forthcoming sequel.
"We just got an outline and some ideas from John Waters, and now we're going out to writers," commented Shankman. "The story will follow Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) and her pals as they navigate the 'next era of music', the late '60s...that period was super political," Shankman adds, "it was a time of serious change." For all of you "High School Musical" fans out there, Shankman let slip that heartthrob Link (Efron) will channel his inner 'Austin Powers' and become lost in the British Invasion. "We're trying to track, in a comedic way, the historical elements".
"Hairspray 2" is pencilled in for a July 2010 release.