Mean Girls comes to UK cinemas this Wednesday (January 17), bringing the classic characters back to the screen for the first time in two decades.
However, don't expect to see the same old versions. For one, the new movie is based on the Broadway adaptation of the iconic movie, and even from that musical, there have been changes made for the new movie.
Reneé Rapp played the role of Regina George on stage and has reprised the role for Mean Girls, but talking to Digital Spy, she has explained how she adapted Regina for the screen to put her spin on it.
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"I think that when I first did it here in New York, I remember being in rehearsals, and I think the notes that I got were conducive to the stage, which was like, 'Bring it up a little bit, and make her a little more, a little more bubbly and feminine'," she recalled.
"That isn't necessarily my thought on it. I think as I show up in this, it's probably how I would have showed up had I not had any notes. However, those notes worked for stage, and were really smart.
"That's not at all, I don't think, what I did here. I think this is much more of a 'less f**ks given' version of it. It's just like not trying."
The new take on the characters is not the only change for the movie version. As well as removing and adding some songs, Rapp added that this version has more depth than before.
"I know four different scripts in my brain. Obviously, there's the iconic 2004 film. There's the Broadway first draft that I did that was frozen, and then we changed the script and some of the songs two days before COVID. And now this," she explained.
"I like, about this, that it really does feel like, to me, the storyline with the girls is very layered. I think it's up for interpretation, but it's very layered.
"There's things written between the lines that aren't necessarily said but that I think are implied by the way that Tina [Fey] adapted it, and then by the way that we also adapted it which makes me like it a lot."
See for yourself if the new version is as fetch as the 2004 movie when it arrives in UK cinemas on Wednesday.
Mean Girls is released in UK cinemas on January 17 and is already out in US cinemas.
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Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
