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Should "Grease" be remade with actual teenagers playing the roles?

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (19411)
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I mean if the kids were really talented.

[–] ColumboKate (5308) 3 years ago

Nope.

[–] tonganprince (565) 3 years ago

Go watch the High School Musical series.

I don't know about talent, but they are young.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20440) 3 years ago

HELL NO

[–] drrclavan (667) 3 years ago

It should not be remade. The original shouldn't even have been made!

[–] liscarkat (16515) 3 years ago

No.

[–] Solastine (1104) 3 years ago

The problem with that is that using teenagers always makes producers want to make things more "hip." I would not mind a remake that is closer to the broadway, but certainly not something that tries to modernize it.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Yes, I'd like to see that.

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

I know they did a live TV version a couple of years ago, how old were the performers? Mid-twenties? Early twenties?

[–] GirlNamedSue (232) 3 years ago

Not sure of the age of the cast, but nobody in the TV live broadcast was in their 50s like Rizzo..

The good is that it was the Broadway version. Because it was, the strongest song in the whole show - Magic Changes, was restored to one of the T-Birds. The bad is that it's almost impossible to recreate the original magic of any movie.

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

Stockard Channing was 34, and Olivia Newton-John was... 30.

[–] strntz (10801) 3 years ago

I think the poster was cracking wise. At least I found it funny.

Stockard Channing may have been 34, but she looked like she was pushing 40. She would have been better cast as Mrs. Murdock or one of the waitresses.

Olivia Newton John looked early 20s in this in my opinion.