Twelve years ago, Charlize Theron and Channing Tatum shared a dance together onstage at the Academy Awards. Now, they’ll give it another twirl in the new family comedy Dance Parents, which they’ll develop and produce as starring vehicles for themselves.
Dance Parents will be directed by Jonathan Levine from a screenplay by Meghan Malloy. Levine and Theron know one another well, having worked together on the comedy Long Shot with Seth Rogen.
Plot details on Dance Parents are unknown, but the title should explain it all. Theron and Tatum will likely play parents aggressively involved in the hyper-competitive world of child dancers. Perhaps we’ll get to see the actors share the dance floor once more?
Levine’s got a pretty good track record. He directed the cult favorite horror All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, as well as the acclaimed cancer dramedy 50/50, the zom-com Warm Bodies, and the Christmas comedy The Night Before. He was an indie darling, earning rave reviews for his semi-autobiographical film The Wackness in 2007. Bigger studio films quickly followed, including the Amy Schumer/Goldie Hawn adventure-comedy Snatched. Coming up for Levine is the sports biography Mr. Irrelevant, starring Superman‘s David Corenswet as NFL player John Tuggle.
Tatum’s been pretty busy lately. He’s starred in the films Blink Twice, Fly Me To the Moon, and Deadpool & Wolverine, where he finally got to play Gambit of the X-Men. He’s expected to reprise the role in Avengers: Doomsday. Coming up, he has Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman premiering at TIFF.
Theron can be seen right now in Netflix’s The Old Guard 2. She has Christopher Nolan’s anticipated blockbuster The Odyssey coming up next summer.
Malloy was a writer on the 2023 animated monster comedy Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
Dance Parents is set up at Universal, but it’s still early days.
