Grease creator denies movie is all a dying coma dream
Jim Jacobs, the man who co-wrote the musical Grease with Warren Casey 45 years ago, is today denying rumors that their play—and, by extension, its film adaptation—takes place in a character’s head as her brain is slowly robbed of oxygen moments just before her death, TMZ reports.
The remarkably well-founded theory was originally posited in an Imgur post three years ago—and popularized by actress Sarah Michelle Gellar in a recent Facebook post—which correctly pointed out that Sandy and Danny’s car flying off into the sky at the end of the movie defies the laws of physics. The post also notes that Danny (played by John Travolta in the 1978 film) brags to his friends that while vacationing at the beach he rescued Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) from a watery death, singing “I saved her life, she nearly drowned.”