They still may not be able to make fetch happen, but Tina Fey certainly has plans to make a new Mean Girls film happen. The twist? She's bringing her successful stage musical adaptation to celluloid.
Fey will work with musical tunesmith Jeff Richmond and lyricist Neil Benjamin on the new movie version, though there's no word yet on who might direct (Fey has form on that front, and Mark Waters directed the original 2004).
"I’m very excited to bring Mean Girls back to the big screen," Fey says in a statement. "It’s been incredibly gratifying to see how much the movie and the musical have meant to audiences. I’ve spent sixteen years with these characters now. They are my Marvel Universe and I love them dearly."
The movie saw Lindsay Lohan playing Cady Heron, who goes to a regular American high school after years of homeschooling from her zoologist parents on a research trip in Africa. Concerned she won't make friends, she eventually forms a connection with the ruling clique the "Plastics", and things go well until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), the ex-boyfriend of queen Plastic Regina George (Rachel McAdams), and it all spirals from there.
With the production at such an early stage, there's no release date yet, though UK audiences will be able to see the stage version (assuming the talks work out) in Spring 2021.