Tina Fey is taking ‘Mean Girls’ musical back to the big screen for new adaptation
’s 2004 film of the same name, is heading back to the big screen for a new adaptation in musical film form.
Both the original film and the theater production trace the story of Cady Heron, a home-schooled teenager who moves from Africa to suburban Illinois, where she attends public school for the first time. There, she attempts to navigate the school’s social hierarchy and infiltrates the popular crew the Plastics., who is a co-producer of the stage production and Fey, who will also write the script, the upcoming Paramount Pictures film will feature music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Neil Benjamin.
The stage version — which is playing at August Wilson Theatre in New York, as well as touring in select theaters in the U.S. through August — features a book by Fey and music from composer Richmond and lyricist Benjamin. The Broadway musical’s producers are also in talks to bring the stage production to London’s West End.and to watch it go from film, to musical, and now to musical film,” Michaels said in a statement.
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