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"Footloose" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of two singles by Loggins from the 1984 film of the same name (the other one being " I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man) ").
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The film was released on February 17, 1984 by Paramount Pictures, and received mixed reviews from the critics and was a box office success, grossing $80 million in North America, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 1984.
- It Was Based on Elmore City, Oklahoma.
- Tom Cruise Almost Played Ren.
- Christopher Atkins Had The Lead, Then Lost it.
- Madonna Auditioned For Ariel.
- Sarah Jessica Parker Wasn’T The First Choice For Rusty.
- Parker Initially Turned The Role down.
- Michael Cimino Was The Director For Four months.
- The Film's Original Title Was Cheek to cheek.
- Bacon Went Undercover as A High School Student.
- Bacon Didn’T Realize What He Was Getting Himself into.
Elmore City had forbidden public dancing by law since its founding. In January of 1979, the local high schoolers asked that the rules be changed so that they could have a prom, to the anger of the reverend from the United Pentecostal Church. The kids won and got to dance on prom night. Dean Pitchford (lyricist for Fame songs "Red Light", "Fame", an...
The producers wanted Tom Cruise, but he had a scheduling conflict with All the Right Moves (1983). Rob Lowe auditioned and blew out his ACL. "I have post-traumatic stress with anything having to do with Footloose," Lowe said later, while recalling a party where Kenny Loggins asked him to do a karaoke duet of the theme song. "I was like, ‘I won’t do...
The Blue Lagoon star Christopher Atkins claimed he was cast as Ren. Unfortunately for him, he was under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol when he met with the producers and the director before taking a vacation where he was planning to have more “fun.” When he found out he lost the role, Atkins had a breakdown and was hospitalized.
Had she gotten the part, it would have been her first feature film role. That didn’t come until 1985, in A Certain Sacrifice. Lori Singer got to play Ariel Moore instead.
Pitchford had written the role with Tracy Nelson, Parker’s co-star on the short-lived but cult favorite TV show Square Pegs (1982-1983), in mind. After successfully auditioning, director Herbert Ross’ wife noted that she didn’t fit into the movie.
The future Sex and the City star passed after being toldshe had to cut and dye her hair red, something she did not want to do after her hair was finally growing out after playing Annie on Broadway. A couple of days into production, the studio changed their mind and let the actress keep her locks.
Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, kept asking for grandiose set-ups and making more and more demands—like requesting $250,000 to rewrite the script, and to make the film darker. Paramount Pictures feared Cimino was going to lose them a ton of money after Heaven’s Gate bankrupted United Artists, and so ...
Cheek to Cheek was a placeholder, and Pitchford filled pages of yellow legal pad paper with any ideas he could think of to come up with a better title. On the second day of doing this, he wrote down "footloose and fancy free," and then "footloose." Pitchford liked itbecause "footloose" is “one of those interesting words that looks good on paper—you...
Only the principal and guidance counselor at Payson Utah High School knew the true identity of one “Ren McCormack,” a transfer student from Philadelphia. The then 24-year-old Bacon was terrified, and was treated the way his character ended up being treated in the movie. He only lasted two to three hours.
The script, according to Bacon, “didn’t really indicate anything” and led him to believe he didn’t need a choreographer. He spent three weeks of dance training with Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Bacon also worked on his gymnastics, and “worked the skin off his hands.”
- Roger Cormier
May 29, 2024 · The film Footloose was inspired by a dance ban which was imposed in Elmore City. Footloose creator Dean Pitchford actually went to Elmore City, and created some characters based on residents there. Elmore’s dancing ban was eventually lifted, and the city now hosts an annual Footloose Festival
- Herbert Ross
- Kevin Bacon
May 29, 2014 · Thirty years ago, the film "Footloose" became one of the biggest flicks of the year, and no one saw it coming — including Kenny Loggins. The rock/pop songsmith had hit Hollywood gold with...
- Dave Paulson
Nov 9, 2023 · Kicking Off a New Era of Dance Movies. Footloose burst onto screens in 1984, ushering in a wave of youth-oriented dance flicks like Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Fame and others. But while many of its contemporaries faded away, Footloose etched itself into pop culture history.
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After the film was released, Dean Pitchford realized that in a way, he was telling his own story with Footloose. He told us, "I was asked to speak at a seminar in Seattle for a film festival. This was about two years after Footloose opened, the original movie in 1984. I was picked up at the airport by an intern who on the way into town was ...
