'Mean Girls' Sets Musical Adaptation for the Big Screen, Cast Led by Renee Rapp, Angourie Rice

 

By Darian Scalamoni

    Paramount has continued to go into the well for more fetches within IP but nothing gets more "fetch" than this. According to a report from Variety, the studio is setting a big-screen musical adaptation of Mean Girls. The original 2004 film was originally adapted for a Broadway show forming inspiration for this latest take on the original Lindsay Lohan movie.

    Renee Rapp (The Sex Lives of College Girls) will reprise her role as Regina George for the film after playing the character originally in the Broadway Show. The arch nemesis of Lohan's Cady Heron was played by Oscar-nominee Rachel McAdams in the original 2004 iteration while Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys, Mare of Easttown) will play Cady in this film. Rapp and Rice will be joined in the cast by Auli'i Cravalho and Jaquel Spivey. Cravalho is best known for voicing Moana while Spivey is a Broadway stalwart having portrayed Usher in the stage musical, A Strange Loop as well as being Tony and Grammy-nominated.

    Tina Fey (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) will write this version of the story after penning both the stage musical and original film version. Arturo Perez and Samantha Jayne will direct the movie which is expected to stream on Paramount+. 

    Rapp is best known for playing Leighton Murray, one of the four leads on HBO Max comedy, The Sex Lives of College Girls. She also just released her first EP "Everything to Everyone." Rice recently appeared in Paramount+ original film, Honor Society alongside Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo. Cravalho can currently be seen in Hulu original, Darby and the Dead before appearing in the highly anticipated Amazon drama, The Power which also stars Toni Collette and John Leguizamo.