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‘Mean Girls’ Movie Musical Taps Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne to Direct

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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterPlastics, meet Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne.Paramount has hired the filmmakers, who are married, to direct the movie adaptation of “Mean Girls: The Musical.” The song-and-dance version of Tina Fey’s 2004 modern cult classic, about cliquey high schoolers for whom the limit does not exist, opened on Broadway in 2018.Paramount Players, the studio’s division that’s developing the film, is keeping the exact logline under wraps, even though the stage version was faithful to the original source material.

The cast has not been set yet. However, Fey, who wrote the screenplay and adapted it into a musical, previously told Variety the Broadway actors won’t reprise their roles on screen.

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