MEAN GIRLS Movie Musical - News & Discussion Thread

EXCLUSIVE: Husband-wife team Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne have signed on to direct the film adaptation of Mean Girls the Musical for Paramount Players. The film will be produced by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey with a script by Fey and featuring music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, who did the music from the Broadway production.

Erin David, Caroline Maroney, and Micah Frank are overseeing for Broadway Video and Eric Gurian for Little Stranger.

https://deadline.com/2021/09/mean-girls-the-musical-arturo-perez-jr-and-samantha-jayne-direct-paramount-players-1234840881/

hearthemsing22 said: "*sigh* Is this necessary?? Why not just release a proshot. A movie musical of a musical of a movie based on a book is just too much. "


Why not both? I will say I am looking forward to the film version of Matilda, which is a musical based on a book that was also a very popular movie. But I’d also love if there was a pro-shot of the stage show… I’m also looking forward to the film version of Billy Elliot (if it actually gets made) and that is a musical based on a film that also has a pro-shot recording. So I don’t have a problem at all with having any musical being done as a film musical as long as investors and studios are willing to put up the money for us to continue getting movie musicals at all.

I don't know why, but a movie adaptation of a musical adaptation of a movie is just one step too far. (I don't count Everybody's Talking About Jamie or other documentary starts.)

Don't care to see it? Cool! Problem solved.

Where my mind is at... this will be the second movie musical adaptation of a Casey Nihcolaw-directed show.

It's already such a tight breezily paced 90 minute or so classic.

The show itself felt like overkill on that let alone this.

The score is just so bad.

Filming will begin in the spring.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mean-girls-movie-musical-sets-cast-1235278432/

"‘Mean Girls’ Movie Musical Sets Cast

Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey and Reneé Rapp will star in the Paramount movie musical written and produced by Tina Fey."

Jaquel Spivey is now the only reason I will be checking out this movie.

Hopefully this is only the first of many film roles for Jaquel

JAQUEL!

Yay! I'm so happy for him!

Updated On: 12/9/22 at 03:05 PM