TV Article 'Dirty Dancing' remake is coming: Abigail Breslin to star in three-hour ABC movie ABC greenlights three-hour musical remake of the Patrick Swayze hit By James Hibberd James Hibberd James is the TV News Editor for EW.com EW's editorial guidelines Published on December 8, 2015 12:00PM EST Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images It’s really happening: Dirty Dancing is getting a remake. ABC has officially greenlit a new three-hour musical version of the 1987 hit romantic drama that starred Patrick Swazye and Jennifer Grey. This time around, Abigail Breslin (Scream Queens, Little Miss Sunshine) will play the new “Baby,” described an “an innocent young woman in the early 1960s who vacations with her affluent parents and siblings in the Catskill Mountains and falls for the resort’s working-class dance instructor.” Executive producers include Allison Shearmur (The Hunger Games) and Eleanor Bergstein, who also wrote the screenplay for the original movie. Jessica Sharzer (The L Word) will write the adaptation and Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) will direct. The music will be done by Adam Anders and Peer Astrom (Glee) with Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) as choreographer. The move comes on the heels of NBC’s musical presentation of The Wiz Live! which delivered 11.5 million viewers, and a strong 3.4 rating among adults 18-49. 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 transfered the story to Cuba in 1958. A short-lived 1988 TV series, starring Patrick Cassidy and Melora Hardin, also failed to hit with audiences. There is a stage musical version as well. RELATED: Abigail Breslin says her family kept her normal growing up Fox and NBC have heavily invested in musical titles the past few years. Given ABC’s Dancing with the Stars franchise, Dirty Dancing is perhaps an ideal title for the network to produce its own show that has a performance aspect. One major difference is that Dirty Dancing isn’t a live production like Peter Pan Live or Fox’s upcoming Grease Live. Fox’s upcoming Rocky Horror remake is also taking that same route of trying to see how a musical performs without the live component. Dirty Dancing will be produced by Lionsgate TV in association with Allison Shearmur Productions. There’s no premiere date yet.