HBO Max prepares series from ‘Grease’

“Grease” will be back, on the small screen, with the help of HBO Max, the WarnerMedia Group’s future subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform. It will be a spin-off of the 1978 film. “It will always be the 50s, a rock n ‘roll world with great musical numbers of the time combined with new original songs,” announces HBO Max. The series is named “Grease: Rydell High”. The name of the high school where the film is starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, himself adapted from a Broadway musical.

“Grease: Rydell High” will deal with “the high school pressure, the horrors of puberty, and the roller coaster that is life in the middle class of the US with a modern sensibility that will give it life for lovers of today’s music, “says the platform in a statement. Paramount Television and Picturestart will co-produce the series. Two companies already preparing a prequel movie “Grease”, called “Summer Nights”, announced in April 2019.

41 years after the release of the film, it is not very surprising to see that Paramount is still trying to capitalize on “Grease”. Indeed, the film was still the number one musical in box office history – before the release of the remakes of “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin” and “The Lion King”.