High School Musical 3: Senior Year will be the next installment in Disney's popular High School Musical franchise. It is being scheduled for a theatrical release on October 24, 2008. Kenny Ortega returns as director and choreographer and all six primary actors from the previous two films will reprise their roles.Plot:
Now high school seniors, Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) are facing the prospect of being separated from each other as they go off in different directions when graduating from East High. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, including Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel), Chad Danforth (Corbin Bleu), Taylor McKessie (Monique Coleman), they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about the future.
Casting :
An international casting call went out to find three new sophomore "Wildcats". This resulted in the casting of Matt Prokop, Justin Martin, and Jemma McKenzie-Brown. Commenting on the announcement, Ortega said, "Peter Barsocchini’s exciting script for ‘High School Musical 3’ called for the addition of three sophomore characters, so we set out on a massive casting search across North America and England to find just the right young actors to play the parts. We think these talented performers will bring lots of humor, new twists, and musical fun to the film. Jemma was one of the many young actresses that we met in London, and she impressed us with her singing and dancing, in addition to being very exciting and effervescent. Matt has a terrific personality, and a great sense of comedy and fun. And Justin had a great presence and charisma, besides being a wonderful comedic actor who could really dance. I am confident that the three new actors joining our original cast will help to bring great musical thrills, surprises and a lot of fun to Senior Year and the halls of East High."
Returning cast* Zac Efron as Troy Bolton
* Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella Montez
* Ashley Tisdale as Sharpay Evans
* Lucas Grabeel as Ryan Evans
* Corbin Bleu as Chad Danforth
* Monique Coleman as Taylor McKessie
* Olesya Rulin as Kelsi Nielsen
* Ryne Sanborn as Jason Cross
* Chris Warren, Jr. as Zeke Baylor
* Kaycee Stroh as Martha Cox
* Alyson Reed as Ms. Darbus
* Bart Johnson as Coach Jack Bolton
* Leslie Wing as Lucille Bolton
New cast members
* Matt Prokop as Jimmie "The Rocket" Zara[4]
* Justin Martin as Donnie Fox[4]
* Jemma McKenzie-Brown as Tiara Gold[4]
* David Reivers as Mr. Danforth
Wanna see the movie trailer? Here's the video:
Development
In February 2007, Disney announced plans for a 2008 feature film sequel with a Halloween theme dubbed "Haunted High School Musical." In September 2007, Disney announced that they had scrapped plans for the Halloween theme and instead will focus on the senior year of key characters at East High. According to Yahoo news, the original writer from the first two films, Peter Barsocchini, is writing the script for the third part in the High School Musical series. The original producers and director/choreographer Kenny Ortega are also on board, which Ortega confirmed in an interview with Access Hollywood.
Zac Efron was quoted in People Magazine as saying, "I can tell you that if the script is good and if we all agree on a final script, then there's nothing that is going to hold us back from doing it. We have fun making these movies and that's very rare in this business."[8]
Rumors persisted of ongoing salary disputes between Disney and the lead performers, particularly Efron. According to Rachel Abramowitz, as reported online by the Chicago Tribune, "an eclectic cross-section of Hollywood insiders think Efron should get a cool $5 million for High School Musical 3, the theatrical version of the franchise, which Disney hoped to make before the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strike shut down Hollywood for several months. Efron declined to comment for the article, and although contract negotiations still are ongoing, sources say Efron is being offered a salary closer to $3 million, not $5 million, for the follow-up, which focuses on senior year at East High. Whatever the price, he's still perceived as a steal."[9]
Ortega stated that pre-production would most likely start in January 2008. Filming began May 3, 2008, at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. He stated that the script had been submitted before the Writers strike started and that they were developing music. He added that filming will happen in Salt Lake City, Utah (as the first two films), hinted that the plot will be something of the nature of the Wildcat's final year in High School and stated "it looks like we've rounded up the cast."[10][11]
Before filming began, the HSM3 board and cast held a press conference at East High School announcing the start of filming. The movie will be released in theaters (in the USA) on October 24 of that year, though several countries like Great Britain will get to see the movie at least one week earlier. The film has a $13.3 million dollar budget and a 40-day shooting period. This film is said to be the final installment with the current cast. [12]
On July 13, 2008, the official trailer premiered on Disney Channel and ABC Family. It also premiered on Disney Channel Latin America the same day, and on internationals Disney Channels on July 14, 2008.
Vanessa Hudgens photo controversy
Despite early speculation that Vanessa Hudgens would be dropped from High School Musical 3 due to her nude photo scandal, The Walt Disney Company denied the reports, saying, "Vanessa has apologized for what was obviously a lapse in judgment. We hope she's learned a valuable lesson."[13]
Although it was reported by OK! Magazine that Vanessa would be replaced by Adrienne Bailon or Sabrina Bryan from the Cheetah Girls in High School Musical 3,[14] Access Hollywood confirmed that the cast was still in negotiations and Vanessa would not be cut from High School Musical 3. Vanessa's representative quoted, "Totally untrue. It is an old rumor," the representative told Access, "OK! Magazine never bothered to check the fact with me, but they did call Disney who said it wasn’t true, but yet OK! ran it anyway. Apparently, OK! Magazine was having a slow news day."
The Vanessa Hudgens Nude Scandal: How it all started?The existence of the nude pictures of the High School Musical star was first reported in the September 10 issue of the National Enquirer magazine which hit the stands last August 29.
On Sept. 6, as the Internet was being flooded with the nude pictures, Vanessa’s rep confirmed to TMZ.com that the photos were real. He says:
“This was a photo which was taken privately. It is a personal matter and it is unfortunate that this has become public.”
Vanessa Hudgens scandal added to Wikipedia Entry
The scandal has been added to Vanessa Hudgen’s Wikipedia page, under the subtitle “Photo controversy”.
It reads:
On September 6, 2007, controversy erupted after nude photos of Hudgens surfaced online.[11] A statement from her publicist claims that the photos were taken privately and it was “unfortunate” that they were released on the Internet.[12] Hudgens later apologized, saying that she was “embarrassed over the situation” and regretted having “taken [those] photos”.[13] Disney Channel spokeswoman Patti McTeague indicated that Disney will still be working with Hudgens, stating, “Vanessa has apologized for what was obviously a lapse in judgment. We hope she’s learned a valuable lesson.”[14][15]
On what blog did the nude photos first appear?
Doing Google/Yahoo search for the Vanessa Hudgens nude pics now returns thousands of articles, blog posts and photo galleries, so it would take hours for anybody to trace on what website or blog the nude pics first appeared. For this, the Wikipedia entry on Vanessa Hudgens provides some links.
Note #11 on the Vanessa Hudgens Wikipedia page links to a Post Chronicle titled “Vanessa Hudgens Naked Pictures: Nude Photograph Online Real Deal” dated Sept. 6. The Post Chronicle news report linked to the blogpost on the celebrity gossip site Crazy Days and Nights that was dated Jan. 6, 2007, which showed a totally nude photo of Vanessa Hudgens.
Going by the date of the blog post on Crazy Days and Nights, it appeared that the blog was the first to post the nude photo. The Crazy Days and Nights, online since November 2006, is maintained by someone who claims to be an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, California.
I know all of you wants to see Vanessa Hudgen's nude pictures, so here it is.
I'd say "nude" but that does not mean they're not censored. HAHAHA.AUTHOR'S NOTE : I know that it's bad for her because she's a star not just in a movie but in a big movie namely, High School Musical. But also let's not judge her just because of this, she's just a human that made a mistake. So for those who've been disappointed about her, well "as if you didn't made any mistake".
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