MEAN GIRLS Trailer 2 (2024) Tina Fey, Angourie Rice ᴴᴰ

MEAN GIRLS Trailer 2 (2024) Tina Fey, Angourie Rice ᴴᴰ

MEAN GIRLS Trailer 2 (2024) Tina Fey, Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Jon Hamm, Ashley Park ᴴᴰ
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Get in loser, we’re making a movie. Mean Girls the musical the movie is coming for your local multiplex, hitching a ride with Taylor Swift. Based on the 2018 Broadway musical, which is based on the 2004 movie, which is based on the 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabees, by Rosalind Wiseman, the movie was first announced by Tina Fey back in 2020. Fey explained that she just wasn’t ready to let go of these teens. “They are my Marvel Universe and I love them dearly,” she said in a statement at the time. Fey wrote the original Mean Girls movie and the book for the Broadway show, so naturally, she’s also writing the script for this feature. She’ll also produce alongside SNL’s Lorne Michaels. Jeff Richmond, Fey’s husband and the creator of the 30 Rock theme, who composed the music on Broadway, is back with Nell Benjamin, also from Broadway, who will provide lyrics. Below, find everything you need to know about the upcoming film, because we may have already passed October 3, but there’s always time for Mean Girls.

Do we have a trailer yet?
The trailer has us. Specifically, it has us wondering where the musical’s original songs are, why Olivia Rodrigo’s “get him back” soundtracks it instead, and, unrelatedly, just how gay is Renee Rapp going to make Regina George? Hopefully very. By the beat-by-beat recap of the original film, it looks like they’re counting on Gen Z and Millennials alike to feel nostalgic for a movie they’ve had on repeat for years. “Not your mother’s Mean Girls,” title cards read. Wait, so is this meant for Gen Alpha, too? Guess it’s never too early to learn about condoms and “choking” from Coach Parr.

A teaser for the film is playing across the country before Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film, but it hasn’t been released online yet. Still, they’re getting the mileage they need out of it, since the Venn diagram between “girls and gays who make friendship bracelets” and “people who want to see the Mean Girls movie musical” is likely a circle. This trailer features a split second of “World Burn,” a song from the musical, a whole lot of chaos, and just one of the many, many indelible lines from the original: “Get in, loser.” The implication being, of course, that we are going shopping.

Who’s in the cast?
Reneé Rapp (Sex Lives of College Girls) is the one watching the world burn as Regina George — and it’s for the second time. She previously played the leader of the Plastics in the Broadway stage adaptation. Mare of Easttown’s Angourie Rice will play Cady, who transfers from Africa and gets caught up in Regina’s popular clique. Auli’i Cravalho (Moana) and Jaquel Spivey (A Strange Loop) will play Cady’s artsy outsider friends Janis and Damian, respectively. Christopher Briney (The Summer I Turned Pretty) will continue to flex his love-interest chops as Aaron Samuels, and the plastics are filled out by Avantika Vandanapu as Karen Smith, now Karen Shetty, and Bebe Wood as Gretchen Weiners.