7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | In the tradition of classic musical sequels like
Goodbye, Dolly and
Seven Divorces for Seven Brothers, the creative team behind
Hairspray is
set to return for a follow-up slated for 2010. New Line has reportedly brought aboard John Waters — whose original 1988 hit was adapted to a Broadway tuner that grossed $200 million when re-adapted for the screen last year — to scribble a new treatment “[picking] up the Baltimore saga of the Turnblad family after the resolution of the first film, which was set in 1962.”
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