Piper Perabo Is Keen For A ‘Coyote Ugly’ Sequel So Dust Off Your Cowboy Boots

I’m the first to argue that most movie sequels are often unnecessary and usually self-indulgent, but I’m ready to change my opinion with the news that iconic noughties film Coyote Ugly could be making a comeback.

Coyote Ugly is the perfect movie. That’s just hard facts. Set in a filthy bar in New York City and following the pursuits of singer/songwriter Violet trying to make it big, it’s the kind of film you can rewatch over and over again. The movie gifted us a killer dance scene with ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’ bar stomp-off, and all-time classic ‘Can’t Fight The Moonlight’ — which is still my go-to karaoke tune.

Now the movie’s star, Piper Perabo (aka Violet), is saying in a recent interview that she’d be hyped for a sequel to the 2000 film. “I would be excited to look at it again in 2020, because I think we’ve evolved and it would be cool to see what it would be like now,” she said, adding that she would be keen to unite the old gang and get all the “great women involved” again.

With a largely all-female cast, Piper reckons that the sequel could be an updated take on contemporary feminism. “I think there was a real kind of stiletto feminism that was happening in the women’s movement in the late ’90s,” Perabo said.“But I was so young [during the first film], and not really politically engaged, so I think if we remade it now, I think we definitely would look at it through a different lens.”

I can see it all now. The ladies are still working at Coyote Ugly but the bar doubles as a women’s centre, where they dole out swift revenge to all the men who have wronged them. Adam Garcia is still kicking around as Violet’s boyfriend, but he’s now the bar’s semi-nude exotic dancer (we know he can pull it off!), and in fact all the bartenders are shirtless men — and the women are their bosses.

Tyra Banks is still there, dancing on that diner table, in one of only two scenes she’s in, despite somehow still ending up on the movie’s poster again. Because some things never change.

Make. It. Happen.