***Update: Boo, you whore! Tina Fey has said that the reunion won't go ahead, not as a film, that is. ***
**‘[There's] definitely not a movie. It's just the anniversary is coming up, so everybody get your pink shirts. It's been 10 years. You can tell when you look at me it's been 10 years.’ .
It's been 10 years since Mean Girls tried to make fetch happen, butter was a carb and carbs were good and a great script, co-written by Tina Fey, made up for all the heavy-handed safari analogies. Good news, then, that with a decade of canonisation behind it, there's going to be a reunion of the film which launched Rachel McAdams's and Amanda Seyfried's careers and momentarily made us think Lindsay Lohan could be the actress of her generation.
Fey ‘has been leading the charge for a reunion to commemorate the occasion’ of the tenth anniversary of Mean Girls, ‘wrangling the entire cast over the last month’, according to TMZ . And Lindsay was one of the last to know. ‘I saw Tina backstage and she mentioned maybe doing some sort of reunion.’ she told Jimmy Fallon on his show the other day. When he asked if she'd be up for it, she enthusiastically replied, ‘Yes! She says she was talking to Lorne [Michaels, the bigwig producer behind the original film] about it, so she’s talking to the big dog about it!’ to cheers and whoops from the audience.
**Quite a few of the supporting cast members are signed on to reprise their roles: Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), that MC/Math enthusiast (Rajiv Surendra), Too Gay To Function (Daniel Franzese) and Mrs George (none other than Amy Poehler).
That leaves Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan), that Drew Barrymore lookalike who turns up at the love-in to cry about her feelings even though ‘she doesn't even go here!’ and all the actual Mean Girls. Which might be tricky now that Amanda and Rachel are such big Hollywood stars. Hopefully they'll remember where it all started. Oh, and that on Wednesdays we wear pink.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.