MEAN GIRLS Movie Musical - News & Discussion Thread — Page 3

teddy1996 said: "christopher briney has no singing experience so i’m curious"

I love the casting for Gretchen and Karen

I would do anything to even be a five second appearance in that movie. The dreaaaaam

Globefan said: "hearthemsing22 said: "I would do anything to even be a five second appearance in that movie. The dreaaaaam"

Which number are you most excited to see on screen?"

I'm very curious about "Where Do You Belong", "Apex Predator" and "World Burn"

Jeff Richmond recently said this to The Hollywood Reporter:

”Right now, the day-to-day is more about the movie adaptation that we’re working on. We’re super involved with that. 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 at a Broadway show or the Pantages. It’s kind of making it a fresher, younger take on the whole thing. We’re kind of reinventing the music for the movie, so it’s really fun.”

So it seems like there will be some adjustments to the score, how major they will be remains to be seen.

Updated On: 2/15/23 at 07:12 PM

Jane as the Cool Mom would be PERFECT

I’m surprised Amy isn’t reprising her role as well.

Globefan said: "Jane as the Cool Mom would be PERFECT"

I’ve had it on pretty good authority months ago that Rachel McAdams was going to be Regina’s mom, but it looks like there are salary issues going on, so who knows what will happen.

Regarding adjustments to the score –– could the adjustments please include rewriting it from scratch, ideally by Marlow & Moss, or Matt Sklar & Chad B, or Barlow & Bear, or Joe Iconis, or Eddie Perfect??

:)

Yessssss. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more Girls5Eva cameos in store (I really wish they had cast Sara Bareilles as Ms. Norbury).

JanMaxwellsBag said: "Yessssss. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more Girls5Eva cameos in store (I really wish they had cast Sara Bareilles as Ms. Norbury)."

Maybe Sara B can sing something over the credits if Tina Fey wants to call in that favor...

https://www.etonline.com/mean-girls-ashley-park-added-to-the-cast-of-movie-musical-exclusive-200212

Ashley Park has been added to the cast of the upcoming Mean Girls movie musical from Paramount Pictures. While her character details are being kept under wraps, ET has confirmed she will have a cameo role in the adaptation after first originating the role of Gretchen Wieners in the Broadway musical.

Park joins a sprawling ensemble cast that includes Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Avantika, Christopher Briney and Bebe Wood.

The film directed by Arturo Perez and Samantha Jayne and written by Fey is based on the latter's own musical adaptation of the 2004 hit film, which ran on Broadway from 2018 before permanently closing in 2021 after 833 performances.

JanMaxwellsBag said: "Unless they write an original character, my money’s on her being the school administrator who says “The girls have gone wild!”

(Is that line even in the musical? I never got to see it live)."

They shift that function to Ms. Norbury. She says that she was stabbed in the leg.