The 'Mean Girls' Movie Musical Gets a Release Date!
How's this for fetch news. Mean Girls is heading to the big screen...again! The Broadway adaptation of the original 2004 teen comedy has been adapted into a new musical movie. Talk about coming full circle.
It was reported in early 2020 that the film was in development. Tina Fey, who wrote the original film's screenplay and the musical's book, said in a statement (via Playbill) at the time, “It’s been incredibly gratifying to see how much the movie and the musical have meant to audiences. I’ve spent 16 years with these characters now. They are my Marvel Universe, and I love them dearly."
Paramount initially planned for a Paramount+ release, but the studio has since announced that the film will go theatrical.
Needless to say, the limit to our excitement for the movie does not exist. Here is everything to know about the Mean Girls musical movie, including who will be playing the Plastics this time around, plus which original stars will return!
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What is the Mean Girls musical movie release date?
The film, directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne, comes out Jan. 12, 2024. And no, that's not a Wednesday, so no need to wear pink!
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How to watch the Mean Girls musical movie
Tell your friends to "get in" and head to the movies because the film will be released in theaters. Paramount initially planned for a streaming release on—you guessed it—Paramount+, but the studio recently announced that the movie will go theatrical first.
Is there a trailer for the Mean Girls musical movie?
Paramount Pictures has yet to drop a trailer or teaser for the movie, but once they do, you can find them here.
Who is in the Mean Girls musical cast?
Reneé Rapp, who played Regina George in the Broadway production, reprises her role as the Queen Bee for the musical movie. Familiar faces from the original Mean Girls movie also are also returning for the musical film: Tim Meadows and Tina Fey, who portrayed Ms. Norbury and Principal Duvall, respectively, will star.
"Me and Tim Meadows are gonna be back," Fey said during a 2023 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers.
"We couldn't age out. Teachers work forever," she added. "I wanted it to be like when Gilligan from Gilligan's Island was at a trade show and you'd be like, 'Oh, he looks so old in his little hat.' That's my goal."
The cast of the Mean Girls musical movie includes:
Angourie Rice as Cady Heron
Reneé Rapp as Regina George
Auli’i Cravalho as Janis
Jaquel Spivey as Damian
Avantika as Karen Smith
Bebe Wood as Gretchen Wieners
Christopher Briney as Aaron Samuels
Jenna Fischer as Cady's mother
Busy Philipps as Regina George's "cool mom"
Tina Fey as Ms. Norbury
Tim Meadows as Principal Duvall
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Will the Lindsay Lohan and the original Plastics return for the Mean Girls musical movie?
Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried starred as Cady, Regina, Gretchen and Karen, respectively, in the 2004 movie. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight in February of 2023, Seyfried revealed that she and her former costars—"all four of" them—are "100 percent into" being in the new movie, but noted at the time that she hadn't seen a script.
McAdams has also expressed interest in appearing in the musical film. However, she told Bustle in 2023, “I don’t see a way to shoehorn us in.” Though she added, “If Tina [Fey] can figure it out, I’m there, for sure.”
Will there be music in the new Mean Girls movie?
Yes! It is a musical, after all. The film is based on the stage musical Mean Girls, which opened on Broadway in 2018. The movie features music by Jeff Richmond (Fey's husband) with lyrics by Nell Benjamin.
Fey previously told Seth Meyers that the Broadway songs were adjusted for the film. "The songs are sounding, really more kind of pop. It's [a] fascinating process actually, because in Broadway everything has to play to the back of the house, and in movies you can kind of come back in and things can play really intimately," Fey explained. "We have a very cool directing team, a very cool choreographer."
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