Mean Girls will be released in theatres as Paramount has revealed some reliable news. The Broadway adaptation of the 2004 hit will be adapted again as a movie musical. Along with the general reveal, Paramount has announced the core cast for the musical. Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, and Jaquel Spivey will lead the cast, along with Reneé Rapp reprising her Broadway Mean Girls role for the feature.
First adapted from Rosalind Wiseman’s book Queen Bees and Wannabes, Mean Girls follows Cady Heron (originated by Lindsay Lohan), a teenager who recently moved back to the States where she is thrust into the complex and messy dynamics of high school. Soon, Cady finds herself swept into the popular clique of the school, The Plastics, after developing a crush on Aaron Samuels, the ex of head Plastic Regina George (Rachel McAdams). What started as an infiltration mission soon takes Cady down the path of becoming a full-blown Plastic herself.
Mean Girl musical veteran Rapp will star as Regina, whom she also portrayed for the Broadway show. While currently starring in HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls, Rapp is a theater actor and recently released her debut EP Everything to Everyone. Broadway alumni Spivey is set to play Damien (originated by Daniel Franzese) for the movie musical. Most recently, Spivey is known for his role in the award-winning musical A Strange Loop.
Original screenwriter Tina Fey will return to pen the script for the movie musical, and also wrote the book for the Broadway rendition. She will produce alongside Lorne Michaels, with music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, and Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. as the directors.
Paramount has yet to set a release date for the movie musical, but it will debut on Paramount+.