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As Hugh Jackman proved at Sunday's Academy Awards, the American musical is alive and well -- and A-listers Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal are about to make that abundantly clear with a remake of Damn Yankees.
As Hugh Jackman proved at Sunday's Academy Awards, the American musical is alive and well -- and A-listers Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal are about to make that abundantly clear with a remake of Damn Yankees.
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have signed on to produce. The pair were behind the hit remake of Hairspray, and a sequel to that film is already in the works.
Damn Yankees won seven Tony Awards when it bowed on Broadway in 1955. The story of middle-aged Joe Boyd, a happily married man who makes a deal with the devil that morphs him into top slugger Joe Hardy in exchange for his soul, was turned into a film in 1958.
Producers are still looking for an actress to play Lola, a temptress recruited by the devil to seal Joe's fate. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are set to write the script.
This is the first musical role for both Carrey and Gyllenhaal.
