‘Grease’ Prequel ‘Summer Lovin’

[Wheels]

Travolta will probably turn up on the first day of shooting in a pompadour wig, saying that he's still good for it lol.

Not unlike Sean Young in her homemade Catwoman outfit!

Travolta: Oh gosh, they told me this was Catman!

Anyone who can tie-in a Simpsons reference to a conversation deserves a gold star. That should be a rule I think.

 

[Pennywise]

Travolta: "What will they say, Monday at school?" or "Can't you see I'm in misery?"

Newton-John: "My eyes are not the first to cry".

Travolta will probably turn up on the first day of shooting in a pompadour wig, saying that he's still good for it lol.

Not unlike Sean Young in her homemade Catwoman outfit!

Travolta: Oh gosh, they told me this was Catman!

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Why is Paramount digging up Grease for no reason? Especially for a really pointless-sounding prequel? Top Gun and Coming To America have far better reasons for getting follow-ups (TG: Maverick was planned for YEARS), as people still love those movies. Not so much Grease.

 

[Dark Raven]

Grease 2 was meant to be the start of a franchise and tv series. They planned a 3rd film but after Grease 2 flopped they scrapped the idea.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Grease 2 was meant to be the start of a franchise and tv series. They planned a 3rd film but after Grease 2 flopped they scrapped the idea.

Yeah, Grease is clearly meant to be a one-and-done story. Paramount needs to stop trying to "expand" on that tale; it just doesn't work!

 

[Dark Raven]

Yeah, Grease is clearly meant to be a one-and-done story. Paramount needs to stop trying to "expand" on that tale; it just doesn't work!

Well Psycho was also meant to be a one- and-done story too but they kept making sequels and even prequels.

 

[The Guard]

Why is Paramount digging up Grease for no reason? Especially for a really pointless-sounding prequel? Top Gun and Coming To America have far better reasons for getting follow-ups (TG: Maverick was planned for YEARS), as people still love those movies. Not so much Grease.

I mean, it's a well known property that is wildly popular. As a show, it's done a LOT, traveling productions do well, and the original movie's popularity speaks for itself. You can't go to karaoke without hearing "Summer Lovin'" at least once per night.

I think they're predicting that Broadway/musical stuff will be in soon, what with HAMILTON and IN THE HEIGHTS and Broadway itself struggling and unsure of reopening potential.

This won't be a super expensive project, most likely, so the return on it is likely to be pretty good.

 

[Wheels]

We get original films all the time it's just not enough people went out to the theatres to watch them because they aren't mainstream enough I guess. The vast majority aren't going to watch indie or prestige films on the big screen.

The stuff people go out for are action, sci-fi, comedy, animation, and horror and the straight up comedy has been dwindling honestly..

A lot of original films are wired into our brains as watch at home material I think.

 

[Dark Raven]

The way this film could potentially do well is by having better songs than Grease or Grease 2.

On the whole, the songs from the stage musical version of Grease are better than the film version. The only thing that the film version has that is better is "Grease is the Word", "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "You're the One That I Want." But many of the other songs from the stage musical were cut out of the film version. When you watch a modern version of the musical with both the film songs included and the original ones from the musical, it's much better than the film. It has songs like "Those Magic Changes", "Freddy My Love", "Born to Hand Jive", "Mooning", "Rock 'n' Roll Party Queen" etc.

Maybe this prequel could use some of those songs that were unused. Yes, the film version of Grease had some instrumental versions of "Those Magic Changes" and "Born to Hand Jive", but they were very much either in the background or not with the lyrics heard.

If they even enlisted some of the song writers from something like High School Musical, they could at least have something that is decent. Pretty much all the songs from HSM are better than Grease 2.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The way this film could potentially do well is by having better songs than Grease or Grease 2.

I don't disagree with this, and as much as I don't give a **** about this project I hope they realize that they need to invest in a legit theatre/theatrical songwriting team to make this work. Assuming Jim Jacobs won't have anything to do with this, the name that vaults to the front of the line for me is Duncan Sheik, in terms of someone who can bring something different to the project while also being proficient with period rock music.

 

[Pennywise]

John Travolta’s reaction to the prequel from last year.

John Travolta Gives His Thoughts About 'Grease' Prequel, 'Summer Nights' | iHeartRadio

“Grease itself, no matter whether you do it in a high school production, a college production, or a TV production or the original movie, is a perfect piece of entertainment. That’s what I think,” Travolta said during Friday's appearance on The Talk (May 24).

“If you repeat that perfect piece of entertainment you always succeed, when you go away from it, then it’s a little risky," he added. "But then if you are clever enough, I’d imagine you could make it work. But that’s yet to be seen. How do you do that? No one can describe the magic of Grease.”

 

[Dark Raven]

John Travolta’s reaction to the prequel from last year.

John Travolta Gives His Thoughts About 'Grease' Prequel, 'Summer Nights' | iHeartRadio

From last year? Has all this time passed since we were discussing it the other day?

 

[Pennywise]

From last year? Has all this time passed since we were discussing it the other day?

Yup, just found out about it, though.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Summer lovin’
Grab up that cash
Summer lovin’
I’ll give this a pass

 

[Pennywise]

Summer lovin’
Grab up that cash
Summer lovin’
I’ll give this a pass

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Well Psycho was also meant to be a one- and-done story too but they kept making sequels and even prequels.

Yeah but those actually still have some quality. Psycho II is actually really good, and III isn’t awful.

 

[Dark Raven]

Here's what we can deduce about the plot of this prequel:

Danny will blow something up with explosives: ""Summer lovin had me a blast"

Sandy will be like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction: "Met a girl crazy for me"

Danny will pee on Sandy's clothes: "He ran by me, got my suit damp"

Sandy will get an amputation from Danny: "He got friendly holding my hand"

Sandy will bury her head like an ostrich to hide the pain: "she got friendly down in the sand"

Danny will become a cross dresser: "Tell me more, tell me more cause he sounds like a drag".

 

[Schlosser85]

That makes it sound way too interesting.

 

[The Guard]

John Travolta’s reaction to the prequel from last year.

John Travolta Gives His Thoughts About 'Grease' Prequel, 'Summer Nights' | iHeartRadio

The magic of grease is the word "grease". There's a whole song about it at the beginning of the movie.

 

[Deck Rickard]

And isn't the whole point of the "summer loving" prologue that Danny downplayed his greaser antics when he met Sandy and made her think he was just a clean-cut dreamboat? So this movie is just going to be two hours of Danny pretending not to be a T-Bird?

 

[Schlosser85]

And isn't the whole point of the "summer loving" prologue that Danny downplayed his greaser antics when he met Sandy and made her think he was just a clean-cut dreamboat? So this movie is just going to be two hours of Danny pretending not to be a T-Bird?

That'll be the "dramatic conflict"/source of much, ahem, comedy.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Usually in the third act, he’d tell her his secret, that he “lied” to her about who he really is but then she’d come to accept him and even dress up as a greaser herself ie. Grease! But now it’ll just end with her thinking he really is that “nice guy”.

 

[Pennywise]

They could always retcon it!

 

[Dark Raven]

Usually in the third act, he’d tell her his secret, that he “lied” to her about who he really is but then she’d come to accept him and even dress up as a greaser herself ie. Grease! But now it’ll just end with her thinking he really is that “nice guy”.

Yeah, he'll get away with his deception at the end and he won't come off looking well. But to do anything else would be to upset the continuity of the original, so they're damned if they do, damned if they don't.

 

[Pennywise]

The Grease Prequel Summer Lovin’ Will Be A ‘Full On’ Musical, Says Director

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s Danny and Sandy song about their summer romance during lunch at Rydell High in the musical Grease is one of Hollywood’s greatest hits. “Summer Nights” has remained so iconic that it’s now the inspiration to a developing Grease prequel titled Summer Lovin’ about the beginnings of the pair’s love story before all those high school politics got in the way. And based on what’s just been confirmed by the film’s director, the upcoming movie has us feeling chills – and they’re multiplying.


Just last month it was announced that Heart Beats Loud director Brett Haley would be helming the Grease prequel, but I’ve been especially curious about whether it would dare to follow up the classic with another musical. Here’s what Haley told CinemaBlend during our recent interview:

I can’t say much about it, but I can tell you, yeah it’s going to be a full-on Grease musical. I can tell fans of the franchise it’s going to be really true to the movie and I also tell people who maybe don’t like musicals that I think it’ll be something that will be a wonderful experience and a wonderful, surprising, fun, feel-good, fully-realized journey. So I’m really excited about what we’re cooking up, and it’s a dream project for me. I feel really honored to have gotten it.