Step Up, the "you got your hip-hop chocolate in my classically trained ballet peanut butter!" teen dance movie, and its sequel, Step Up 2: The Streets, have both done brisk business at the box office, so its not surprising that another sequel should already be in the works. But while we feared that their choice to go the alphanumeric pun-title route would perhaps limit the third installment creatively (a lively spitballing session from our beloved commenters threw out such possibilities as Step Up 3 Men and a Little Lady and Step Up 3 Days of the Condor), never once did the most obvious possibility occur to us: Step Up 3-D!

Disney will proceed with a third installment of its hit dance franchise "Step Up," tentatively titled "Step Up 3-D."

Pic will become the latest 3-D live-action film from the Mouse House, with "Step Up 2 the Streets" director Jon Chu in talks to reprise.

That the young maverick Chu is returning to direct should come as a huge relief to fans of the franchise. Disney execs could just have easily tanked the project by farming it out to CGI-addict Bob Zemeckis, who'd transform the likable cast into dead-eyed, computer-generated dance-zombies, after a lengthy and expensive process the would require Channing Tatum to spend approximately 720 hours doing the clown walk in a bright green leotard covered in thousands of tiny motion censors.

• Disney planning 'Step Up 3-D' [Variety via Thighs Wide Shut]

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