'Hearts Beat Loud' Director Brett Haley to Helm 'Grease' Prequel
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hollywoodreporter.comSundance Film Festival regular Brett Haley has been tapped to helm Paramount'sGrease prequel, Summer Loving. The feature is based on a song that comes early on in the classic 1978 musical that starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as high school teens from opposite worlds.
Travolta’s Danny Zuko, a rough-and-tumble greaser, and Newton-John’s Sandy Olsson, a good-girl from Australia, sings 'Summer Nights' both recounting to their friends a summer fling they had.
The prequel's story is said to tackle that meeting. Haley will direct from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick. Temple Hill and Picturestart are producing.
Haley broke-out withI’ll See You in My Dreams, which premiered at the Park City festival in 2015. He followed this with two.
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