And now we're getting a 'Grease' TV series....for some reason
Did I just not notice the huge clamoring for Grease related content?
Because a new Grease television series will focus on the origin story of the Pink Ladies, according to Variety.
The series was originally planned for HBO Max, but will instead be seen on the Paramount Plus streaming platform. The title of the show will be Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, and it is created, written, and executive-produced by Annabel Oakes.
Rise of the Pink Ladies will be an hour-long musical series that looks at how the eponymous group began and how they change Rydell High. Additional information has not yet been revealed.
This news comes off the heels that Paramount is making a Grease prequel, titled Summer Loving, and has tapped John August, the veteran writer behind such films as Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to pen the script.
Grease is the classic 1978 musical that starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as high school teens from opposite worlds — Travolta’s Danny Zuko a rough-and-tumble greaser, Newton-John’s Sandy Olsson a virginal good-girl from Australia — who in the end come together "like rama lama lama."
However, in the early part of the movie, in a he-said/she-said manner, Zuko and Olsson both recount to their friends a summer fling they had via the song "Summer Nights." Zuko’s tale is more graphic, while Olsson’s is much innocent and wistful.
The prequel's story is said to tackle that fateful meeting.
Rise of the Pink Ladies will be an hour-long musical series that looks at how the eponymous group began and how they change Rydell High. Additional information has not yet been revealed.