First Teaser for ‘Mean Girls’ Musical Movie Coming to Theaters 2024
by Alex Billington
November 8, 2023
Source: YouTube
“You could be really hot if you change, like… everything.” Paramount has unveiled the first teaser trailer for the 2024 update on Mean Girls, a big screen version of the Mean Girls musical from Broadway (which closed in 2020). It’s not really a remake, it’s not really a sequel, it’s kind of a re-imagining but as a musical even though it borrows the same story and setup from the original 2004 Mean Girls movie. Paramount Pictures Presents, a Broadway Video/Little Stranger Production, arriving in theaters nationwide in January 2024. Get in loser, we’re going to the movies. Cady Heron is a hit with the Plastics, A-list girl clique at her new school and she makes mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. Angourie Rice stars in this as Cady, with an ensemble cast of fresh young faces including Auli’i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Ashley Park, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Tina Fey, and Tim Meadows & Jon Hamm. This looks like another splashy Broadway adaptation, not at all a complete reinvention or remake of Mean Girls. Have fun anyway.
Here’s the teaser trailer (+ poster) for Arturo Perez Jr & Samantha Jayne’s Mean Girls, from YouTube:
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 schemes 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. Mean Girls (2024) is co-directed by the filmmakers Samantha Jayne (“Quarter Life Poetry”) & Arturo Perez Jr. (also “Quarter Life Poetry”, plus the docs McCartney: Grand Central, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?). The screenplay is written by Tina Fey. Based on the stage musical “Mean Girls” from Broadway (running from 2018 to 2020). Lyrics by Nell Benjamin, book by Tina Fey, music by Jeff Richmond. It’s produced by Lorne Michaels & Tina Fey. Paramount will debut Mean Girls in theaters everywhere starting on January 12th, 2024 early next year. Who’s excited for this one?
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