'Grease' Prequel Series 'Rise of the Pink Ladies' Sets Paramount+ Premiere in April - Watch Teaser

Paramount+ hopes its latest series is the one you want. Like greased lightning (go greased lightning), the “Grease” prequel series “Rise of the Pink Ladies” is rushing to the streamer on April 6, in time for you to possibly gorge on those summer nights. . Paramount+ broke the news of their January 9 presentation for the Television Critic's Association Winter Press Tour and, because there's worse they could do, released a short teaser for the teen music series for accompany him.

The series is a prequel to "Grease," the 1978 film itself adapted from the 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Directed by Randal Kleiser, the film was helmed by John Travolta and the late Olivia Newton-John as crossover greaser Danny Zuko and good girl Sandy Olsson, but the film became a cultural sensation (grossing $366.2 million at the global box office) thanks in part to the memorable supporting cast, particularly the Pink Ladies girl gang led by Stockard Channing as the hard-edged Rizzo.

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“Rise of the Pink Ladies” tells the origin story of the Pink Ladies, set in 1954 (four years before the original film) and how the original members of the group came to run Rydell High. Marisa Davila, Cheyenne Isabel Wells, Ari Notartomaso and Tricia Fukuhara play the four founding women of the Pink Ladies, while Shanel Bailey, Madison Thompson, Johnathan Nieves, Jason Schmidt and Maxwell Whittington-Cooper play their various love interests and rivals in the ecosystem of the high school. Jackie Hoffman also stars in the series as Assistant Director McGee, a role played in the original film by Eve Arden. The series was created by Annabel Oakes, who produces with Marty Bowen and Erik Feig.

"Rise of the Pink Ladies" will be the first expansion to the "Grease" cinematic universe since 1982's "Grease 2", which featured an almost entirely new cast of characters and received negative reviews at the time. though it has since developed a devoted fan base and helped propel Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom with her performance of However, it's not the first 'Grease'-themed TV program; in addition to the acclaimed "Grease: Live!" from 2016 production on Fox, there was also a 2007 NBC reality series "Grease: You're the One That I Want!" which saw contestants compete for the roles of Danny and Sandy in a Broadway revival of the musical.

And the "Grease" fever doesn't go away with "Rise of the Pink Ladies"; Paramount Pictures has another prequel to the original film in development titled "Summer Lovin'." Focusing on the summer Danny and Sandy spent together before the events of the original film, this prequel will be directed by Brett Haley from a script by Leah McKendrick.

If you're hopelessly devoted to 'Grease', watch the trailer for 'Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies' below.

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