Grease Prequel Summer Loving In Development At Paramount

Courtesy of https://deadline.com/2019/04/grease-prequel-summer-loving-in-development-at-paramount-1202592154/

Deadline has confirmed that Aladdin screenwriter John August is writing a prequel to Paramount’s 1978 musical Grease.
The movie will take it's jumping off point from the song "Summer Nights" and focus on the fling that John Travolta and Olivia Newton John's high school characters Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson.

The original 1978 Grease soundtrack has sold over 38M copies worldwide. There was a sequel to the film in 1982 starring Michelle Pfeiffer and it tanked at the time making just over $15M at the domestic box office.