Editing Grease 2 (section)

===Development===
''Grease'' co-producer [[Allan Carr]] had a deal with [[Paramount Pictures]] to be paid $5 million to produce a sequel, with production beginning within three years of the original film. Carr decided to hire [[Patricia Birch]] as director for the sequel, as she had previously served as the choreographer for the stage and film versions of ''Grease''. Birch was initially hesitant to accept after learning that neither composers [[Jim Jacobs]] and [[Warren Casey]] nor [[John Travolta]] and [[Olivia Newton-John]] would be involved in the film.{{sfn|Hofler|2010|p=136}} [[Bronte Woodard]], the writer who adapted the original stage material for the original film, had died in 1980, and Canadian comic [[Ken Finkleman]] (who was also writing and directing ''[[Airplane II: The Sequel|Airplane II]]'' at the same time) was tasked with penning a new script mostly from scratch.  The total budget for the production was $11.2 million, almost double the budget of the original.{{sfn|Hofler|2010|p=144}} Birch's approach to the material was to hew closer to the original, grittier stage productions from which ''Grease'' came; she had resisted changes made to the original film (largely made at Newton-John's behest) but was overruled.<ref name=vanity>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/grease-movie-musical-john-travolta-olivia-newton-john|title=How ''Grease'' Beat the Odds and Became the Biggest Movie Musical of the 20th Century|magazine=Vanity Fair|author=Callahan, Michael|date=26 January 2016|access-date=4 June 2021|archive-date=20 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420073138/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/grease-movie-musical-john-travolta-olivia-newton-john|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Grease 2'' was intended to be the second film (and first sequel) in a proposed ''Grease'' franchise of four films and a television series. (The third and fourth films were to take place in the 1960s and during the [[Counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture]] era.) However, the projects were scrapped due to the underwhelming box office performance of ''Grease 2''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=''Grease 2'' (1982) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56788 |access-date=August 6, 2023 |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730071713/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56788 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Maxwell Caulfield]] was unhappy with the film's "drab" title, and unsuccessfully lobbied to change it to ''Son of Grease''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Next Overnight Sensation|first=Cynthia|last=Heimel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6OcCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45|date=March 22, 1983|access-date=August 19, 2013|page=45|journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref>