# "Grease" prequel in the works **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336 "2019-04-10T15:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336/21 "2019-04-11T15:45:00Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Weak story, a contempt for its subject and its characters (who are walking cliches at best), and a mediocre score (especially if you don’t use the songs added for the movie). It’s a cynical attempt at pseudo nostalgia. It’s a sequel to the movie, so let’s just use the songs that were added for the movie. What is “pseudo nostalgia”? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336/22 "2019-04-11T16:11:50Z")
It’s a musical. Musicals are just about pseudo-everything. That’s a feature, not a bug. That’s why in a musical, people stuck in traffic dancing on car tops is enjoyable. Or jumping all around the room dancing on furniture. In real life that would be a disaster. Using the words “cynical,” “contempt,” and “mediocre” in the same sentence as \*Grease \*= does not compute. I’d go with “magical,” “peppy,” “fun,” “great to sing along with,” etc. If a prequel has those same qualities, I’m all over it. If the reviews come in with words like “lame,” “tired,” “no-talent,” etc., then I will stay away. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336/23 "2019-04-11T19:12:03Z")
I would be surprised if The Usual Gang do not appear at least at the beginning and end of the prequel. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336/24 "2019-04-11T19:23:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The movie will be about the two of them meeting somewhere else-why would either of those two characters be there? … wait, what? Of course “the gang” from “Grease” will be represented… regardless that we know him from another property, you have to establish Danny as a character in the movie about his summer vacation, so what better way to do this than Danny on the last day of school? This way the audience (who is already primed for this) is re-introduced to the “Grease” universe, Danny’s world, his friends, his life, (I’m sure there’s a musical number here) then we… CUT TO SANDY … we see Sandy on her last day of school, and maybe another musical number… (Or maybe scenes of Sandy are cut with Danny scenes during the same number. Who knows?) Regardless, it’s not at all difficult to shoehorn Rizzo and the gang into a few scenes here and still make it about the summer D’Sandy became a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336/25 "2019-04-12T02:07:04Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Weak story, a contempt for its subject and its characters (who are walking cliches at best), and a mediocre score (especially if you don’t use the songs added for the movie). It’s a cynical attempt at pseudo nostalgia. I saw the national touring company of _Grease_ in 1973, not long after the Broadway version premiered, and only a couple of years after the original version had been first performed in Chicago. The nostalgia, the subject, and the characters seemed genuine back then, especially since the story was set _less than 15 years earlier_. When the movie came out in 1978, it was still less than 20 years after the story’s 1959 setting. But the characters had been scrubbed of most of their working-class grittiness, and the cameos from the actual '50s celebrities gave the whole thing an extra dose of campiness. Don’t get me wrong, it was still a fun and enjoyable movie, but it had lost a certain note of “realness.” Now the story is set 60 years in the past. The current generation of producers have no anchor in that era, and, IMHO, will be concerned only with creating a frothy pop confection with cute retro costumes. And that’s why I’ll miss Rizzo. She’s the only character that managed to hang on to her original grease. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336/26 "2019-04-12T02:28:22Z")
I hope they cast and computer de-age John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336/27 "2019-12-12T03:14:11Z")
Bumped. A man bought Olivia Newton-John’s _Grease_ jacket for $243,200 at a charity auction, and then gave it back to her: [Olivia Newton-John's 'Grease' jacket: A man bought it for $243,200 and gave it back to her - CNN Style](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/olivia-newton-john-grease-jacket-gift-trnd/index.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grease-prequel-in-the-works/832336.md?page=1)