For San Francisco film lovers, we are pleased to present this story from “The Moving Picture.”

Adam Shankman (Bedtime Stories, Hairspray) has signed on to develop and produce a remake of Bye Bye Birdie for Columbia Pictures, report the trades.

A stage favorite for the past half-century, Birdie centers on Conrad Birdie, a popular singer whose character is based loosely on Elvis Presley. He’s about to be shipped off to the army, but as part of a publicity stunt, he agrees to one last encounter with a fan before he goes to war.

The 1958 musical has had several screen adaptations, including an Ann-Margret and Dick Van Dyke version in 1963 and a television movie starring Jason Alexander in 1995.

Columbia has been developing an updated version for a number of years, with the logline at one point re-imagining the title character as a hip-hop star. Several writers also have taken cracks at a new version of the story, with Step Up 2 the Streets director John Chu and Tina Fey attached to write at different points. No new writer has been attached in the project’s current incarnation.

Shankman is also attached to direct Bob: The Musical, The 8th Voyage of Sinbad and a sequel to Hairspray, which he recently talked about with MTV here.

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