Mean Girls is a definitive comedy of a generation, so much so that we even have it in the top five of our 100 best movies of the 2000s. As Mean Girls gets ready to turn 20 this spring, Paramount Pictures is getting ready for its remake to be among the first batch of upcoming 2024 movies. The first trailer for the next Mean Girls movie is here (on a Wednesday, of course), but there’s one thing about it that has fans of the original resisting the urge to start a Burn Book of their own.
Although there’s not a single melody from the Broadway musical itself, the new Mean Girls movie is set to be an adaptation of the stage version of the comedy Tina Fey wrote ahead of the new version making its premiere back in 2017. The first look at the movie, which has been in development since 2020, featured a look at the 2024 Mean Girls cast, including the return of Tina Fey and Tim Meadows, as well as Renée Rapp’s Regina George, but one line of text in the trailer went especially viral. In between a preview of scenes from the movie, “This Isn’t Your Mother’s Mean Girls” had people talking.
