Welcome to the (Later) ’60s! Hairspray 2 Details

These kids are going to have so much fun at Woodstock.

Entertainment Weekly talked to Adam Shankman, the director of Hairspray (the musical, not the John Waters’ original) about plans for the sequel. So what’s up?

“We just got an outline and some ideas from John Waters, and now we’re going out to writers,” director Adam Shankman tells EW exclusively. The story will follow Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) and her pals as they navigate the “next era of music,” the late ’60s. “That period was superpolitical,” Shankman adds, “it was a time of serious change.” No kidding: According to the filmmaker, heartthrob Link (Zac Efron) will channel his inner Austin Powers and become steeped in the British Invasion. “We’re trying to track, in a comedic way, the historical elements.”

Wow, it was, like, superpolitical? Groovy. But here’s my real question–drugs were a pretty important part of the music of the latter half of the ’60s; their introduction to psychedelics contributed heavily to the Beatles’ shift from clever pop hitmakers to serious musical experimenters. So will we be seeing the cast of Hairspray 2 trying out LSD and chilling to Jefferson Airplane? I’m just wondering.