A closer look
Disney's hyper-successful teen franchise High School Musical originally started development in the late nineties as a script for Grease 3, heavily focusing on the children of Danny and Sandy before it was eventually reworked into the sanitized, basketball-dribbling juggernaut we know today; knowing that Zac Efron's aggressively earnest singing career was birthed from the ashes of a failed sequel to a movie about high schoolers who smoke cigarettes and lie about pregnancies makes the wholesome innocence deeply hilarious, completely reframing Troy Bolton's angst as just a watered-down, corporate-approved version of a leather-clad gang member singing on top of a broken down Ford
