Posted on 04/09/2019 1:56:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Grim news today, as The Hollywood Reporter brings word of Paramounts 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 were 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 titledbrace yourselvesSummer 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.
They should combine Grease with another hit from 1978....The Deer Hunter.
They could call it Deer Grease.
Id pay good money to see Danny shoot Sandy and bring her home on the hood of Greased Lightning.
The sequel to Grease was crap. Why can’t Hollywood leave a classic movie alone? It’s not like they don’t have countless books/stories for inspiration.
Tell me more, tell me more, did you get very far?
I always cringe when they cast 30+ year olds as 16 year olds.
It will have a black lead, and homos as the supporting characters.
Pass.
The Star Wars Christmas Special.
Well played.
Mad Men was an accurate portrayal of the sixties.
I was there and did that.
We’ll find out everyone in Grease was actually gay.
Hollywood died a few years ago. Absolutely no ability to make any sort of worthwhile new idea movies. The last real movie it made was The Matrix.
But it’s in line with the rest of the country. NASA is now incapable of even making its own rockets, it has to be outsourced to China.
You almost describe my favorite sitcom,
Strangers with Candy, which, if you haven't
seen yet, you probably shouldn't.
Travolta: "I've got chills, they're multiplying, and I'm losing control. Cause the power you're supplyin ...it's electrafying, electrafyin."
Newton: "You better shape up, cause I need a man, and my heart is set on you. You better shape up, you better understand. To my heart I must be true."
Travolat: "Nothing left, nothing left for me to do."
You're the one that I want...ooh, ooh, ooh, honey.
Newton: "If you feel an affection and to shy to convey. Meditate in my direction, feel your way."
Travolat: "I better shape up...
Im putting you in for an Academy Award for best script.
I wonder if I can do that online?
I completely agree on both points.
Develop a prequel to Grease. It will be called Slick50
Bingo.
Well, the original already did that. Particularly gay was the shop scene. The funhouse scene had a high level of gayness, as well.
I mean, if you're trying to lose money, there are easier ways.
Prequel to Grease?
Didnt they do a sequel already?
Hated that movie so much as a kid, I’m rooting for them to make it as a sick act of revenge for all the times I had to watch it, because I know it will suck.
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