Gretchen Wieners is getting yet another shot to make fetch happen. A film adaptation of the “Mean Girls” musical is in the works, a press release has announced.
Based on the 2004 cult classic penned by Tina Fey, the musical version of the high school pic was also written by the “30 Rock” alumna. Both projects tell the story of Cady Heron, a teen who enrolls at a high school in suburban Illinois after being homeschooled on an African savanna. At North Shore High, Cady is quick to discover a different sort of food chain, with The Plastics, a trio of mean girls led by Queen Bee Regina George, reigning on top. She and her new friends, longtime victims of the Plastics, scheme to get Cady welcomed into the clique, where she can spy on them and take them down from within.
Paramount Pictures is behind the film adaptation, which will be penned by Fey. The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ” co-creator is also among its producers.
“I’m very excited to bring ‘Mean Girls’ back to the big screen,” said Fey. “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,” she joked.
The “Mean Girls” musical premiered in October 2017 at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. and opened on Broadway in April 2018 at the August Wilson Theatre, where it is still playing. The Broadway production has recouped its capitalization, and producers are in final discussions for “Mean Girls” to hit London’s West End in late Spring 2021.