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Zac Efron was originally cast as Ren McCormack, but he pulled out in March 2009 because he did not want people to think that all he could do was sing and dance.
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Julianne Hough beat out several favorites including Hayden Panettiere, Miley Cyrus and Amanda Bynes for the part of Ariel Moore.
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Kenny Ortega was originally stated to direct, but he pulled out following budget constraints and creative differences.
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Chace Crawford, who had been cast in the lead after Zac Efron left the project, pulled out of the movie in April 2010.
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Kevin Bacon was given the script, but could not find a role he was willing to play. One particular role originally written for him was Ren's deadbeat father. However, he gave Craig Brewer his blessing.
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Julianne Hough, who plays one of the main characters (Ariel Moore) has a brother, Derek Hough, who starred as the lead character (Ren McCormack) in Footloose: the Musical.
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Miles Teller had played his on-screen role of Willard Hewitt in a high school version of "Footloose: The Musical".
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Unlike the original, Kenny Wormald performed most of his own dance moves due to his dancing background.
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The film is dedicated to the original Footloose director, Herbert Ross. Not only in the end credits, but the cop who pulls over Ren has "H. Ross" on his name tag. He is credited as Officer Herb.
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Kenny Wormald received the script from the musical instead of a draft from Craig Brewer before accepting the role.
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Craig Brewer wanted to be a filmmaker after seeing the original Footloose. He loved the movie so much, he recorded the audio and listened to it while walking.
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Although it is pretty rare, there have been individual towns or counties in the United States that have forbidden public dancing by law. For instance, in 1980, People Magazine ran a story about students at Elmore City High School in Elmore City, Oklahoma, who had to lobby the town's and school's officials for permission to have a prom. They were successful, and their prom was the first legal public dance in Elmore City since the town's 1861 founding. The plot of both this movie and its source, 1984's Footloose, were loosely based on Elmore City's story.
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During the barn dance, tons of confetti is shot out of a blower onto the happy crowd. Unfortunately, the mylar confetti was requested to be cut in 1/4 inch squares. It fell like lead. More confetti had to be hurriedly ordered and while it was the right size and shape to flutter down, there was not near enough of it for take after take. Between every take the confetti was swept and vacuumed up and recycled (along with anything else that happened to be on the floor). By the end of the night, everyone was covered in dirty, sweaty confetti.
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In the film, Ariel takes her shirt off to start the bus derby. This is how, in the original script to the original Footloose, she was supposed to start the tractor race.
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After discovering Footloose fan, Emily Whitcomb's "Footloose Rap" on Youtube, director Craig Brewer invited her to attend a preview screening of the movie where he filmed a "remake" of the rap with actors Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald as backup dancers. That clip was also uploaded to Youtube and was included in the Blu-ray special features.
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Craig Brewer:
His boots are seen dancing in the opening credits when the words "A Craig Brewer Film" appears.
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