Posted on 04/09/2019 1:56:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Grim news today, as The Hollywood Reporter brings word of Paramount’s diabolical plan to develop a prequel to Grease. If any of our readers have young children present, you may want to close your laptops now, as what we’re about to tell you is incredibly disturbing. Paramount has hired screenwriter John August of Big Fish and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory fame to write the screenplay for a Grease prequel titled–brace yourselves–Summer Loving. It is with heavy hearts that we relay this terrifying news of a prequel to the hit 1978 musical that you once watched on a loop with your 10-year-old friends during sleepovers, much to the vague discomfort of their mothers.
Readers will recall the events of the original Grease, in which naive Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) fell for bad boy greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) despite their obvious differences. You may also recall a nerve-rattling musical number early in the film, in which Sandy and Danny each describe how they first met over the preceding summer. In a harrowing display of unreliable narration that underscored divides in both class and gender (and its archaic norms), Sandy and Danny tell very different stories about that meeting. His was a salacious retelling of their flesh melding into one; hers a pleasant and tender recollection of harmless embraces. “Tell me more,” their friends demand with shrieks that pale in comparison to the torturous screams Summer Loving will elicit on this nightmare called Earth.
The threat of this prequel is imminent. We will keep you posted as the story develops. Good night, and good luck.
Ping.
I can already hear the guys at Red Letter Media...
Absolutely no originality in writing.
>>If a Star Wars prequel about the Death Star data tapes can make over a billion, then a prequel about one song in Grease might be successful too.<<
The better comparison is to “The Star Wars Christmas Special.”
That was more watchable than The Last Jedi.
Modern writers have zero imagination, but if we were truly living in Hell, wouldn’t this star two gay guys?
I saw it when i was a kid and i thought it was gay and stupid and the Outsiders was better, the girls in 8th grade loved it for some reason, probly all the snapping gum.
The exchange student at my school actually WAS an Australian girl.
>>That was more watchable than The Last Jedi.
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Bea Arthur made more sense than Diversity Hire Rose.
The subtitle of “The Last Jedi” should have been “End of a Franchise.” And sub-subtitled “get woke, go broke.”
Never watched the original, or anything that spinned off it, so I won’t be watching any prequel. I used to like musicals, especially those of Rogers & Hammerstein, West Side Story, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Can’t stand any of them now.
>>but if we were truly living in Hell, wouldn’t this star two gay guys?<<
Watch them make Olivia NJ’s character a tranny.
My new favorite Star Wars trilogy is:
#3 (whatever it's called, with the Anakin Skywalker who emotes like a Wooden Indian, and the big swordfight that was pretty cool, on the lava planet).
"Rogue One", the movie in question.
#4, "A New Hope", which was the fantastic space western which started it all 42 years ago.
I saw it as a little kid, when it originally aired. Even back then, as just a tot, I could tell that it was awful. Plumbed depths of badness that my young mind couldn't comprehend.
How, exactly would that pitch go? "It's Star Wars. Harvey Korman AND Bea Arthur? On Screen with Harrison Ford? What could possibly go wrong? We will make MILLIONS!"
The Broadway show starred Barry Bostwick and Adrienne Barbeau, both of whom went on to do other popular things (Bostwick did Rocky Horror and Spin City, Barbeau did Maude and The Fog).
The movie was a pretty good adaptation, tying in Sid Caesar, Eve Arden, Edd Byrns, Joan Blondell, and Frankie Avalon from 1950s and 1960s film and TV.
-PJ
You can relive the horror anytime you choose, thanks to YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MrPe6i5YU
I expect the movie will completely trash 1950s ala Mad Men.
Yet another reason to say “MARANATHA”
“Took her bowling in the arcade
We went strolling drank lemonade”
That’s already a more interesting plot than most of what Hollywood is releasing these days.
She is pretty. I only saw the movie once because I was watching it with a new girl I was seeing.
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