celeb news Tina Fey on why there hasn't been a Mean Girls sequel

[okgo]

*yes I'm aware there's a sequel, I obv mean with the og cast

 

 

 

 

[Katy.Kat.23]

I think the success of the Real Housewives franchises proves her feelings about middle aged moms completely incorrect, but whatever you say Ms. Fey.

[punisher]

i mean we kinda did get a sequel but it was the worst monstrosity ever brought to mankind

i wish we got one with the og cast

Edited January 11 by punisher

[Revolution]

make original movies 

[tonyle1911]

“Bad moms” is sort of “Mean girls” with grown married women. The movie was great too. But I understand what she meant. Still hope there will a reunion somehow tho

[Apolonio ₃₄]

I wish people move on already. 

[Strawberry Bubble]

The bar set by Mean Girls is so high that I don't think any sequel could meet its expectations

[Timeless]

I think they should have just left the Mean Girls 2004 movie as it is. Keep it a classic. No sequels, no spin-offs, no musicals. Make a new original story instead. Keep trying to remake the 2004 movie just feels cash grabby and puts a stain on the Mean Girls brand name. 

[Distantconstellation]

53 minutes ago, punisher said:

i mean we kinda did get a sequel but it was the worst monstrosity ever brought to mankind

i wish we got one with the og cast

was the original cast there? if not then it wasnt a real sequel

[Karla Cabello]

sequels often ruin films

[liquiddiamonds]

People keep asking for this “And Just Like That….Still Mean Girls” sequel and Tina clearly doesn’t want to lol She’s afraid she will ruin the characters because some level of depth is supposed to come with adulthood and none of the girls were super rich (maybe Regina and that’s it) to be the level of futile gays want them to be…

Edited January 11 by liquiddiamonds

[dumbsparce]

I'm not buying that. Rachel McAdams clearly doesn't want to be involved in anything Mean Girls-related which explains why she wasn't even at the premiere of the new movie (at least thaf I'm aware of).

[Witchpop]

Not everything needs a sequel just because it's good. Mean Girls can stand alone as a single film.

[What_A_Mess]

I hope it never happens. Mean Girls is iconic. Everything that was needed to be said was told in that movie. A sequel would tarnish it.

[Rotunda]

I’d much rather have the original creators explore new ideas that draw on the same energy of original series (e.g. Desperate Housewives and Why Women Kill having the same creator) than explicit sequels.

[Scandalous]

1 hour ago, Strawberry Bubble said:

The bar set by Mean Girls is so high that I don't think any sequel could meet its expectations

too much time has passed at this point, it could never live up to the hype. i feel like the majority of the nostalgia wave reboots/sequels over the past few years have ended up being largely disappointing and cheap fan service that fans didn't even enjoy

[Spicy_TyTy]

I am more than fine if we never get a sequel. I know Lindsay would love it as it would help her with the light career resurgence she's had off the back of the Netflix film and banking on the nostalgia factor but it's better to avoid ruining its legacy by cashing on a film that'll do wonders financially even if it's a flop.

[Poxy]

A sequel would need to be perfect, and that’s nearly impossible to accomplish. I don’t blame her for not trying.

[Cherish]

2 hours ago, Rotunda said:

I’d much rather have the original creators explore new ideas that draw on the same energy of original series (e.g. Desperate Housewives and Why Women Kill having the same creator) than explicit sequels.

WAIT, DH and WWK have the same creator? No wonder it looks so intriguing. 
 

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I feel like Mean Girls 2 tarnished any chance of a real sequel. 

[Rotunda]

21 minutes ago, Cherish said:

WAIT, DH and WWK have the same creator? No wonder it looks so intriguing. 
 

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I feel like Mean Girls 2 tarnished any chance of a real sequel. 

Season 1 is one of WWK is one of the best streaming originals I’ve had the pleasure of viewing. Season 2 is also good. You won’t regret it.

[Exodus]

The sequel would be so easy to write (and even using Rachel McAdam's disappearance in the WalMart ads):

 

In the time since the first movie, Regina moves away for some high powered job but ends up being reduced to an unhappy, unemployed housewife. After a divorce (from Shane Oman!), she gets a job opportunity from now Principal Norbury to move home and teach at her former high school. She moves back in with her mom and on the first day of school, finds the power dynamic has shifted. Guidance Counselor Cady Heron, PTA President Gretchen Weiners and Weather Forecaster Karen Smith (and their children) run the school. Regina and her timid, mousey daughter must figure out a way to survive high school in the 2020's with an old group of frenemies who are threatened by her return. Parallel but inverse to the first movie, Regina teams up with art teacher Janis Ian and theater teacher Damien to try and balance the power.

 

Whenever they write this script, they need to be very careful to keep the children secondary characters to preserve the storylines of the Core Four.

 

Tap Ariana Grande for the single from the soundtrack and plug in Mariah Carey for a cameo (since she loves MG so much).

 

AND to bring in the numbers and fan-service The Notebook, they should bring a currently red-hot Ryan Gosling to be her new love interest as the gym teacher or something. 

 

Tina Fey can pay me later for this.

 

 

Edited January 11 by Exodus

[Cherish]

2 hours ago, Exodus said:

The sequel would be so easy to write (and even using Rachel McAdam's disappearance in the WalMart ads):

 

In the time since the first movie, Regina moves away for some high powered job but ends up being reduced to an unhappy, unemployed housewife. After a divorce (from Shane Oman!), she gets a job opportunity from now Principal Norbury to move home and teach at her former high school. She moves back in with her mom and on the first day of school, finds the power dynamic has shifted. Guidance Counselor Cady Heron, PTA President Gretchen Weiners and Weather Forecaster Karen Smith (and their children) run the school. Regina and her timid, mousey daughter must figure out a way to survive high school in the 2020's with an old group of frenemies who are threatened by her return. Parallel but inverse to the first movie, Regina teams up with art teacher Janis Ian and theater teacher Damien to try and balance the power.

 

Whenever they write this script, they need to be very careful to keep the children secondary characters to preserve the storylines of the Core Four.

 

Tap Ariana Grande for the single from the soundtrack and plug in Mariah Carey for a cameo (since she loves MG so much).

 

AND to bring in the numbers and fan-service The Notebook, they should bring a currently red-hot Ryan Gosling to be her new love interest as the gym teacher or something. 

 

Tina Fey can pay me later for this.

 

 

Excuse me, why are we not funding this? This is incredible. I need it. Now. 

[MonsterJohn]

Queen Rachel is way above such cash grap

 

I thought the same for Amanda but she proved me wrong with that Walmart commercial

[KBax]

As much as I am curious to see how a sequel would play out, I also think it should never happen. It would HAVE to be done right, which I think would be very difficult and could taint the original movie. Mean Girls as it's own is perfect and doesn't really need a sequel. It will always remain an iconic movie and that's how it should stay as just a stand alone

[Dante Silva]

There are other films out there such as “Drop Dead Gorgeous”, “Heathers” and “Muriel’s Wedding”, that offer much the same experience as the original “Mean Girls”. So I don’t necessarily think it needs a direct sequel.