MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
#1MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:18pm
I love the movie and the show, but I don't think this is something we need.
What is buried in this announcement is that the production recently recouped.
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"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
ModernMillie3
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/13
#2MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:30pm
A movie already exists so this is dumb. Very happy they recently recouped though!
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#3MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:35pm
ModernMillie3 said: "A movie already exists so this is dumb. Very happy they recently recouped though!"
Why is this “dumb”?
LuPita2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/18
#4MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:38pm
Wow. How completely and utterly unnecessary.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#5MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:42pm
I would've just preferred MEAN GIRLS Live on NBC, but money.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#6MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:44pm
Hmmmmm.....2 movie versions of Little Shop; 2 movie versions of The Producers; AND of Chicago; 8k versions of Phantom and Les Mis.
I don't care....but I'm not a fan of the story in any iteration.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#7MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:45pm
jacobsnchz14 said: "I would've just preferred MEAN GIRLS Live on NBC, but money."
I agree. Or even film it professionally and air it like LEGALLY BLONDE. This would've been a ratings hit.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Pose2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/24/19
#9MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:48pm
Ugh. We already have a virtually perfect film of this story, and a decent musical. Enough is enough.
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#10MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:49pm
This could maybe go on Netflix. Tina Fey already worked with them on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
I also think her style of humor is better suited for film/TV than the stage. It's at such a breakneck speed, it pretty much requires editing to work. Mean Girls on stage was still plenty funny, but it lost a lot of the timing from the original movie.
metropolis10111
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/06
#11MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:52pm
Because this never works! look at what happened to Hairspray... oh wait.. yea.
Updated On: 1/23/20 at 03:52 PM
#12MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:53pmI’m surprised people are having negative feelings about this... how does a movie version of the musical existing affect any of us personally? I’m looking forward to it, but even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t think it’s existence was “dumb”.
#13MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:57pmThis is just to get a press release. This is a very big no no. See you on MTV, do we even watch that channel?
ModernMillie3
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/13
#14MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:57pm
I’m looking forward to it, but even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t think it’s existence was “dumb”.
Yep, different opinions. What a concept.
#15MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:58pmAlso buried in this announcement is plans for a West End production to open in Spring 2021.
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#16MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:59pmThank god for the Fun Home movie, these film adaptions of bad stage shows aren’t going to help get new audiences in seats.
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#17MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 3:59pmThank god for the Fun Home movie, these film adaptions of bad stage shows aren’t going to help get new audiences in seats.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#18MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 4:13pm
^Is that their purpose?
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#19MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:02pmAm I the only one amazed it just recouped?!? How high is its weekly running cost?
#20MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:03pmTina Fey probably doesn’t come cheap
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#21MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:22pmThis is an awful idea. Not only do I not care for the show (love the original film), but I just can’t see why this should be made except for a quick buck. There’s nothing about the musical that seems cinematic. A lot of the staging just won’t work on film. If they wanted to let a wider audience see the musical, they should’ve just professionally taped the Broadway production.
#22MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:27pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Tina Fey probably doesn’t come cheap"
I would agree, but would she really demand that much up front that it took the show nearly 2 years to recoup during which the first 18 months of the run the show was selling over $1.1M. a week?
Princeton2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/08
#23MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:34pm
The thing is Hairspray was a smaller cult movie and the show actually improved on it in many ways, Mean Girls I'd argue today is still a more popular and known title with a famous cast and the musical hasn't really improved on the original movie.
The Producers and Chicago were mega hits and, like Hairspray, The Producers musical really added something onto the movie.
Chicago, Les Mis and Phantom were just movie versions of mega musicals that had been running for years.
I wouldnt be surprised if it never gets made
DaveyG
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/05
#24MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:43pmMean Girls really is a dreadful musical. I’d be surprised if this movie actually gets made.
pointilismlight
Chorus Member Joined: 5/29/08
#25MEAN GIRLS Recoups and Announces Film Adaptation
Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:51pm
Hot Pants said: "This is an awful idea. Not only do I not care for the show (love the original film), but I just can’t see why this should be made except for a quick buck. There’s nothing about the musical that seems cinematic. A lot of the staging just won’t work on film. If they wanted to let a wider audience see the musical, they should’ve just professionally taped the Broadway production."
There's nothing about the musical that seems cinematic? It is based nearly beat by beat on a movie! It takes place in so many locations they had to use video screens!
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