Four decades after the movies, we return to Rydell High to see the origins of one of Grease’s iconic high school gangs. Paramount+ has released the first trailer of ‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’, the long-awaited television prequel to the musical and which will premiere in the United States on 6 of April.
Set four years before the filmthe musical comedy follows a quartet of girls who, fed up with repressions, decide that it is time to have fun as they want, causing a moral upheaval in the halls of the institute.
The Pink Ladies Arrive
The prequel features a cast made up of Marisa Davila like jane, Cheyenne Elizabeth Wells like Olivia, Ari Notartomaso like Cynthia, Tricia Fukuhara like Nancy, Shanel Bailey like Hazel, madison thompson like Susan, Johnathan Nieves like Richie, Jason Schmidt like Buddy, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper like wally and Jackie Hoffmann as assistant director McGee.
‘Rise of the Pink Ladies’ is developed by Annabelle Oakes, whose credits include having scripted ‘The Invisible Girl’ or ‘Minx’. At the TCAs, which are taking place this week, he introduced the series as follows:
“Our characters will have to experience from a different perspective and how those experiences overlap with those of others with a marginalized identity. I think we have an opportunity to represent another fight that overlaps with things that we are fighting today like racism.”
It is not the only project that will serve as a prequel to ‘Grease’ since ‘Summer Lovin’ is also in development, a film that would take place during the summer in which they met Sandy and Danny. Brett Haley will be directing the film, but we haven’t heard from the project for a couple of years.