Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Tina Fey’s Mean Girls a new theatrical film based on the hit Broadway play… which was based on the original 2004 movie. The new movie actually looks like it will deliver a fun and entertaining moviegoing experience. The whole concept is the same, but it was updated for a whole new generation of teens. After all, the original movie celebrates its 20th anniversary next year. Yeah, it’s been 20 years since the first movie was released!
The description for the movie reads: “From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, Mean Girls. New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.”
The musical’s creator, Jeff Richmond, talked about the film saying: “What we’re trying to do [with the movie] is take the score that sounds like a Broadway score — in a good way — and [give] the movie a fresher palette. To make it sound more like stuff you want to listen to on Spotify, as opposed to when you’re sitting eighth row center at a Broadway theater or the Pantages. It’s kind of making it a fresher, younger take on the whole thing. We’re kind of reinvented the music for the movie, so it’s really fun.”
Mean Girls: The Musical is directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. from a screenplay by Tina Fey. The movie also stars Fey, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Jon Hamm, and Tim Meadows.
Mean Girls: The Musical will be released in theaters on January 12th.
