Chace Crawford Training Full Throttle for Footloose Role

Chace Crawford is certainly "extremely sore" with all of those intense dance training he's going through in preparation for the role of Ren McCormack in Footloose. Although the actual filming has not started yet, the Gossip Girl hunk wanted to make sure he is fit enough to do all the moves required of the role.

For all his efforts, Footloose director Ken Ortega says he "loves" that Chace is serious for all this. Ortega said:

He's doing dance training and physical training. We have a great teacher working with him there - he wanted it, he loves it.
We have a great script, we have Chace, and an excited studio.
We just did a big scene from the movie, just as a little sizzle, a little test - a place for us to stretch together, he was dancing in it and he's going to be great.

Wow, Chace Crawford is really in it to bring it and prove to everyone that he's just not some Zac Efron replacement. The movie will start shooting in March 2010.

Chace Crawford Confirmed to Lead Footloose Remake

After Zac Efron's backing out drama and numerous speculations, the Footloose remake is now spelling out the name of Chace Crawford to reprise the lead role of Ren (previously played by Kevin Bacon). This news was confirmed directly by the producer Paramount Pictures to Perezhilton.com.

Now that we know who the leading man is, the leading lady will surely be another thing we would want to know. Four young female stars are said to be on the list that is led by Miley Cyrus, Hayden Panettiere, Amanda Byrnes and Julianne Hough. Tween fans might be leaning towards the Miley Cyrus option, but I think Hayden Panettiere should be given consideration too. This Footloose remake is to be megged by Kenny Ortega, the same man who directed High School Musical movies.