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“Rise of the Pink Ladies”: the prequel of “Grease” arrives (finally)

Of a prequel based on the universe of Grease has been talking to each other for years, but now it seems like all the pieces are fitting together in the right place. After a first hypothesis linked to HBO Max, it is now time to marry the project Paramount+. who announced the realization of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, a series of 10 episodes which, according to the official synopsis, will be set 4 years before the meeting between Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson. At the center of the story there will be the so-called Pink Ladies, that is the group formed by Rizzo (Stockard Channing), Frenchy (Didi Conn), Marty (Dinah Manoff) and Jan (Jamie Donnelly), while the setting will once again be that of Rydell High School before the rise of Danny’s Thunderbirds.

To be central in the logic of the plot will therefore be four rebellious and marginalized girls who dare to have fun according to their own rules, giving a jolt to the high school morale that, from that moment on, will never be the same. Begun in 2019, the prequel adventure of Grease has been very turbulent, but it seems to have finally reached the happy ending: behind the series there will be Annabel Oakes (Atypical), who will be involved in the dual role of creator and showrunner, while the episodes will be Temple Hill and Picturestart as producer.

Before the arrival of Disney musicals such as The beauty and the Beast, Aladdin e The Lion King, Grease, the 1978 film that became a cult in the history of cinema, was the highest-grossing live-action musical ever, going so far as to sell more than eight million copies with its soundtrack in the United States alone. We still don’t know if The Rise of the Pink Ladies it will count on the presence of sung and choreographed numbers or if it will limit itself to being a dramedy but, in any case, it is obvious that the nostalgia effect is now experiencing one of its moments of maximum splendor.


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