Tina Fey Revealed Why There Isn’t an Original Cast Reunion in the New ‘Mean Girls’

Move over, Barbie, because the movie on everybody’s lips right now is the Mean Girls remake starring Renée Rapp, Angourie Rice, and Christopher Briney. The film, which hits theaters tomorrow, is a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical rendering of the original 2004 film (created and produced by Tina Fey), which starred Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried.

When the new movie was first announced, there were rumblings of a reunion between the original plastics. However, Fey, who wrote the screenplay for the new film and reprises her role as Ms. Norbury, told The New York Times that while there were initial talks with the women, their schedules were just too “busy” to make it work.

“We’ll never know,” she told the outlet, referring to what roles the women would’ve played in the 2024 flick. “They’re busy people, so it didn’t come together, but we tried, and we all love each other.”

Prioritizing the remake was easy for Fey because the project is so near and dear to her heart, and she is grateful to the franchise’s fandom.
“I have other things that I’d like to do. But I have so much gratitude that this movie seemed to stick with people,” she said. “When I look at it, I am reminded of how hard I worked on it in the first place. I feel like the bricks and mortar of it were the absolute best possible job I was capable of at the time. It’s not perfect, but it holds water.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Fey was asked if she would ever write a sequel following the original plastics now that they’re all grown up, though she admitted she hadn’t “thought much about that.”

“To me, part of why the stakes are so high in the story is because everyone’s so young and feelings are huge, love is huge and friendship is huge in a way [that it isn’t with] middle-age moms,” she said. “I love writing about middle-aged people, but I don’t know.”

Even though everyone’s favorite high school clique will not be reuniting in the new movie, Lohan, Chabert, and Seyfried did recently get back together for Walmart’s Mean Girls-coded Black Friday commercial, which paid homage to the flick’s most iconic moments.