Alison Brie has been cast in a starring role in G.L.O.W., the upcoming Netflix series from Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan, Variety reports. The show, a half-hour comedy, will tell the story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a 1980s wrestling promotion created by director (and Jayne Mansfield’s husband) Matt Cimber, astrologer (and Sylvester Stallone’s mother) Jackie Stallone, and producer (and non-celebrity relative) David McLane.
Brie will play an out-of-work actress who joins the wrestling promotion in a last-ditch effort to succeed. It’s her first on-screen recurring television role since Community was canceled, though she voices Diane Nguyen and Vincent Adultman on Bojack Horseman, also on Netflix.
The show doesn’t have a release date yet, but to prepare for the awesomeness that will come from a comedy about G.L.O.W., let’s take a terrifying journey into the minds of its creators. First, here’s Jackie Stallone, rapping about how the wrestlers she manages, known as the Good Girls, will defeat the heels (the Bad Girls, naturally) managed by Aunt Kitty:
Next, here’s David McLane taking on Aunt Kitty directly in a rap battle. The wrestlers flanking her are tag-team act Hollywood and Vine, played by Jeanne Basone and Janet Bowers:
Matt Cimber seems to have been smart enough not to do much rapping, but here’s the trailer from his 1982 Razzie winner Butterfly, starring Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, and introducing Pia Zadora:
If you’re not sold on the comedic potential yet, return with us now to the Riviera Hotel & Casino in December of 1985 for the pilot episode of G.L.O.W., complete with Patti LaBelle’s “New Attitude” and a title bout between Shirley Temple knockoff Tammy Jones and quintessential heel Matilda the Hun. (If you can stand more than 15 minutes, here are Parts 2, 3, and 4.) Best of luck to Alison Brie and whoever has to tease her hair!
