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LATIFAH TO RETURN IN 'HAIRSPRAY' SEQUEL?: Cast not finalized, but New Line is working to bring everyone back for newly-inked sequel.
*New Line has signed an agreement with "Hairspray" creator John Waters to write a treatment for a sequel to last year's hit musical film.
None of the original cast, which included Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle and Elijah Kelly as Seaweed, had sequel options in their original contracts. But New Line is hoping to reunite the original cast in a film that will be ready for release by Warner Bros. in mid-July 2010, reports Variety.
The story would pick up the shenanigans of the Baltimore-based Turnblad family following the end of the first film, which was set in 1962.
Confirmed to return are director-choreographer Adam Shankman, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and Tony-winning songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who will write new songs for the film.
"Hairspray" grossed more than $200 million worldwide with John Travolta as Edna Turnblad, Christopher Walken, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer and Allison Janney.
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