Good news Wildcats fans — the major stars of “High School Musical” will be back for the third installment of the popular Disney Channel movie series, and this time they are heading to the big screen.
After weeks of speculation, Disney formally announced today that Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman will be filming the new installment, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” this spring.
Kenny Ortega will direct the film based on a screenplay by Peter Barsocchini, who wrote the scripts for “HSM1” and “HSM2.”
“We’re thrilled to have all of the talented cast members who helped to make ‘High School Musical’ such an incredible phenomenon joining us for this big screen motion picture event,” Oren Aviv, president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production said in a statement.
In addition to announcing their box office move, Disney let slip some news about the plot – Troy (Efron) and Gabrielle (Hudgens) face the prospect of being separated from each other as they go off in different directions to college.
Once again, the group will be staging a musical within a musical, and it will be full of revved up dance numbers according to Disney.
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