Paramount+ has given approval to Grease prequel focusing on the high school girl gang ‘the Pink Ladies ‘series to the classic 1978 film. Sanjida Tanmoy reports.
Here is everything you need to know about the Prequel:
- ‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ will be set four years before the original Grease film. The ten-episode series will focus on the four original Pink Ladies known as Rizzo, Jan, Marty, and Frenchy.
- Director Annabel Oakes is the writer and the executive produce who will act as its showrunner. Marty Bowen and Erik Feig will also work as executive producers.
- ‘Rise of the Pink Ladies’ takes place four years earlier than the original Grease. Per the show’s logline, “before rock ‘n’ roll ruled before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school, four fed-up, outcast girls dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.”
- The show has taken a pretty long time to its green light at Paramount+.
- The show was originally titled Grease: Rydell High and scored a straight to series order from HBO Max in October 2019.
- Rise of the Pink Ladies is separate from the Grease prequel film Summer Loving, which was first announced in 2019.
- The movie Grace star Newton-John presented the film against criticism that it was sexist.
He said, “It was a stage play, it’s a musical, it’s fun. It’s a fun movie musical not to be taken so seriously.” “I mean, this movie was made in the 1970s about the 1950s.”
