"Grease" premiered in 1978 and starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
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“Grease” remains to be the phrase.
A prequel collection primarily based on the long-lasting 1978 musical “Grease” has been set to stream on Paramount+.
“Rise of the Pink Girls” will happen in 1954, 4 years earlier than the unique movie’s setting.
The ten-episode collection will star newcomers Marisa Davila as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, Tricia Fukuhara as Nancy, Shanel Bailey as Hazel, Madison Thompson as Susan, Johnathan Nieves as Richie, Jason Schmidt as Buddy, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper as Wally and Jackie Hoffman as Assistant Principal McGee.
The present will comply with 4 outsiders who need to shake up the established order at Rydell Excessive. Alethea Jones will direct the pilot episode.
“Earlier than rock ‘n’ roll dominated, earlier than the T-Birds had been the good in class, 4 fed-up outcasts dare to have enjoyable on their very own phrases, sparking an ethical panic that may change Rydell Excessive ceaselessly,” the official Bloglines reads.
“We're thrilled to unveil our new unique collection that may introduce an unbelievable forged of younger stars within the making and electrifying musical numbers you'll fall in love with,” Nicole Clemens, president of Paramount Tv Studios and Paramount+ Unique Scripted Sequence, mentioned in an announcement.
Clemens continued: “Annabel and Alethea have managed to brilliantly seize the spirit of the long-lasting beloved basic movie which like ‘Rise of the Pink Girls,’ is each set previously however related to the current.”
The mother or father film starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as love pursuits from totally different highschool cliques who should cope with their associates attempting to tug their relationship aside. The Pink Girls within the flick had been portrayed by Stockard Channing, Didi Conn, Dinah Manoff and Jamie Donnelly.
A sequel was launched in 1982 that starred Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer and garnered unfavorable opinions on the time of its debut. Nonetheless, over the many years it has turn out to be a cult basic.
Caulfield and his “Grease 2” co-star Lorna Luft seemed again on the musical in an interview with “At present” final yr and mentioned the film’s significance.
“The movie, in its means, was forward of its time to the extent that this was a really sturdy lady who knew her personal thoughts and wasn’t going to let herself be outlined by the man she was with. And in order that made the movie very in keeping with the rising feminist motion within the early ’80s,” the “Empire Information” star mentioned on the time.
Luft performed a Pink Girl herself alongside Pfeiffer and dished what it was like working with the “Scarface” icon. She mentioned, “I like her. I simply suppose she is simply one of many biggest, biggest folks. She’s a incredible actor, and he or she was so beneficiant and sort. And the entire women, the Pink Girls, we actually bonded collectively.”
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