GREASE 3

It’s 1988.

DANNY ZUKO and SANDY ZUKO/OLSSON are in the middle of a bitter divorce.

DANNY is the owner/manager of a restaurant/club called T-Birds (after his old high school greaser crew.) The club’s well-known for its live music and BBQ food.

Coming up is the 30^th anniversary of the school’s graduation, which will be held at the club. DANNY is spending lots of money on recreating the high school dance feel for the occasion.

The movie concentrates on getting the gang back together for the final dance.

DAN ZUKO, their son, is a 21 year old upcoming racing track driver.

His twin sister, LIZZY, is named after the absent BETTY RIZZO, who has gone off-radar and nobody knows where she has been since about 1978.

LIZZY is in a rock band who play at T-Birds and other local venues. They are being trailed by a MANAGER, who promises them all sorts of stuff. DANNY doesn’t trust him and is keeping a close eye on the situation.

DAN and his dad are at each other’s throats: they are too similar and are both hard-headed. SANDY is caught in the middle.

DAN has a crash taking one too many risks in an important race, at which he is being scouted by Formula One as potential talent. He has heard they are looking for test drivers and is pulling all stops out.

He also has JEFF – a bitter rival – who is suspected of sabotage.

DAN is badly injured and taken to hospital. This is another source of tension between DANNY and SANDY: SANDY has always tried to dissuade her son from the racing in favour of furthering his career in finance (his major at college.) And whilst DANNY agrees with his wife, he also is sympathetic with his son’s following his dreams. But he won’t/can’t say it.

LIZZY’s band is maybe on the verge of a tour with POISON but what is the hidden agenda of the MANAGER? She is of course, like DAN, extremely good looking.

In the run up to the reunion DANNY contacts RIZZO and the two become close. 

Do they have an affair?

How does that play out?

Will DANNY and SANDY have the last dance?

Contemporary themes to explore:

First significant talk on global warming/climate change

Glasnost/perestroika/Gorbachev

Reagan signing death penalty bill for drugs traffickers

Iran Contras/Oliver North

Iran-Iraq war

 First World AIDS day

Increase in home computer use

OK now someone give me 80 million to spunk on it and then it will flop to fuck anyway. Sex.