Hairspray
The storyline for unmade sequelHairspray 2 : White Lipstickwas suitably gonzo . John Waters is a cult movie maker best known for movies likePink Flamingos , Cry - BabyandSerial Momstarring Kathleen Turner . He ’s made some memorable acting appearing too , includingThe Simpsons'“Homer ’s Phobia,“Seed Of Chuckyand he play his filmmaking beau ideal William Castle ( House On Haunted Hill ) in an episode ofFeud .
One of his most acclaimed whole shebang isHairsprayfrom 1988 , which was also his first photographic film to receive a PG rating . Hairspraystarred Divine , Debbie Harry ( Videodrome ) and Ricki Lake , and concentrate on an fleshy teenage girl who becomes a regular on a attain 1960s saltation show and ends up using her celebrity to fight for racial integration . The movie became a cult favorite in the years that followed and was later adjust into a hugely successful Broadway musical , which in turn was adapted into a motion picture in 2007 .
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Hairspraygathered together an impressive supporting players , include Zac Efron , Michelle Pfeiffer , James Marsden and John Travolta ( From Paris With Love ) and the movie became a grown striking , spawning a Pt - selling soundtrack . It did n’t take long for talk of the town of a sequel to arrive , with John Waters being hired to write a script . Waters ca n’t pen anything generic or good and he later excuse his fresh concept forHairspray 2 : White LipsticktoBroadway World , which was set in the late sixties .
Hairspray 2 : White Lipstickwould have integrate result such as the Vietnam War and the rise of British band like The Beatles , with Tracy ’s ( Nikki Blonsky ) boyfriend Link ( Zac Efron ) have got to pretend he ’s British to keep his singing career go . Link would have also developed hickey along his hairline that start talking - and even singing - to him . Tracy would shinny with renown as mass start to hate her for refusing to miss weight , while her mother Edna ( John Travolta ) starts take dieting pill and losing weight , which causes friction in her man and wife to Christopher Walken ’s Wilber .
Hairspray 2 : White Lipstickwould have also boast Little Inez ( Tayla Parx ) evolving into an militant inspired by Angela Davis . John Waters also revealed no raw medicine numbers were penned for this script when he submit it to the studio , but songs would have been written if it had moved out front . Director Adam Shankman ( Rock Of Ages ) later declared the espouse - up stagnant in 2010 , while John Travolta also stated he had no sake in returning . It ’s doubtfulHairspray 2 : White Lipstickwill move ahead with the original dramatis personae now - mean no telling zit on Zac Efron ’s os frontale , lamentably - but a new take onHairsprayitself is always possible .
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