Musical Mean Girls, the musical based on the movie, in production as another movie

[Silvermoth]

'Mean Girls' Broadway Musical to Be Adapted Into New Feature Film, Tina Fey to Write and Produce

The “Mean Girls” Broadway musical is being adapted into a new feature film at Paramount Pictures, with Tina Fey writing the script, the studio announced Thursday. You heard it right: The movie-gone-musical is being turned into a movie!

Plot details for the adaptation, produced by Fey and Lorne Michaels, are being kept under wraps. Of course, the 2004 film, “Mean Girls,” focused on the story of Cady Heron, who moves to suburban Illinois after being homeschooled in Africa, and wants to be popular. She takes on The Plastics and becomes frenemies with Regina George. But soon, she learns the hard way that you just shouldn’t mess with the Queen Bee.

Well, it’s pretty much my only chance to get to see it so I’ll take it!

 

[CaptainWagner]

I'm bummed we're getting this before a Heathers Movie Musical, but it should be fun.

 

[Dark Raven]

They need to do this kind of readaptation with Waitress and Once. Definitely Waitress.

 

[Silvermoth]

It’s a funny reaction to this thread because I was going to write the exact same thing but for the legally blonde musical. Someone needs to make a series of cool musical adaptions and called it the shared universe of fabulousity or something

 

[Dark Raven]

It’s a funny reaction to this thread because I was going to write the exact same thing but for the legally blonde musical. Someone needs to make a series of cool musical adaptions and called it the shared universe of fabulousity or something

I thought of Legally Blonde as well. They could do a readaptation of the musical too.

 

[The Guard]

They need to do this kind of readaptation with Waitress and Once. Definitely Waitress.

only if they’re going to sell mini pies in the theater.

 

[Silvermoth]

Yeah they should do that for all movies lol

 

[The Guard]

They were so good.

 

[Dark Raven]

How about a film version of Pretty Woman the musical?

 

[Silvermoth]

I didn’t know pretty woman had a musical but I loved the original.

 

[Dark Raven]

I didn’t know pretty woman had a musical but I loved the original.

Pretty Woman: The Musical - Wikipedia

It's a fairly recent thing, and I saw a poster for it on the London Underground as it's opening a run in the West End here very soon. Music is by Bryan Adams.

 

[Silvermoth]

It is funny, so many choices for adaptions and yet someone still thought they should adapt cats first haha

 

[Dark Raven]

I noticed that Pretty Woman doesn't contain any of the songs like "It must've been love" or all the other ones on the film soundtrack. I'm sure it was a licensing and royalties issue but still, most of us tend to associate these songs with the movie so it will feel like they're missing.

 

[The Guard]

It is funny, so many choices for adaptions and yet someone still thought they should adapt cats first haha

CATS is the fourth longest running Broadway show of all time. If anything, it's a bit surprising it hadn't been adapted yet.

 

[Dark Raven]

Was the Mean Girls musical a hit? And were the songs any good?

They should adapt Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark as a movie.


BTW, I see that Danny Mac is playing the Richard Gere role in Pretty Woman in the West End. That's fairly good casting in theory as he's been sometimes compared to a young Richard Gere. The only thing is that he's more like Richard Gere pre American Gigolo or An Officer an a Gentleman which would be way too young for his character in Pretty Woman. He'd be more suitable for the role in about 15 to 20 years time.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[samsnee]

Horrible trailer. Makes it look like a straight remake instead of a musical. The fact Tina Fey and Tim Meadows are in it won’t help set it apart, as much as I like those two.

 

[Silvermoth]

Saying “this isn’t your mum’s mean girls” was needlessly violent I think

 

[Dark Raven]

Meanwhile...

 

[psylockolussus]

This looks cheap or in Regina George's mouth, "fetch".

 

[Dark Raven]

This looks cheap or in Regina George's mouth, "fetch".

Regina George never said that. It was Gretchen. Regina said "stop trying to make fetch happen."

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Deck Rickard]

Not sure if this will be any good but Angourie Rice is a much better actress than Lohan ever was. Might be an unpopular opinion, but Mean Girls was probably Lohan’s best role and she got upstaged by every other actor in the main cast.

 

[Drizzle]

Not sure if this will be any good but Angourie Rice is a much better actress than Lohan ever was. Might be an unpopular opinion, but Mean Girls was probably Lohan’s best role and she got upstaged by every other actor in the main cast.

I don't think that's out of line at all. Even when she was at her peak popularity Lohan was always a mediocre actress at best. The only two movies that come to mind where she might have turned in a better performance are maybe Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap. Everyone stole the show from her in Mean Girls, even Tina Fey and Tim Meadows in much smaller supporting roles.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I don't think that's out of line at all. Even when she was at her peak popularity Lohan was always a mediocre actress at best. The only two movies that come to mind where she might have turned in a better performance are maybe Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap. Everyone stole the show from her in Mean Girls, even Tina Fey and Tim Meadows in much smaller supporting roles.

Yeah. She was never that good. And while I sympathize with her to some degree for how the media turned her into a punching bag over her substance abuse issues, it’s hard to feel too bad for someone who threw in with Trump later in life.