I think it's pretty safe to assume Lindsay Lohan will
not grace the screen for the inevitable sequel to
Mean Girls. Alleged crack addicts generally don't play high school students - unless we're talking about a
Bret Easton Ellis novel. Though
Mean Girls was previously a mere foothold in Lohan's once solid film career, it has since turned into a launch pad for other actresses. Costars
Rachel McAdams and
Amanda Seyfried have since been flung into the stratosphere of stardom (though I still maintain that McAdams was wildly miscast in
Sherlock Holmes) - and it looks like
Lizzy Caplan is hot on their heels. (If you're not watching Lizzy in
Party Down, you need to rectify that immediately.) Needless to say, we all know what happened to screenwriter
Tina Fey. Wildly successful, saviour, Thursday nights and
30 Rock probably ring a few bells. Here're a few details of the upcoming project from
The Frisky, via
ABC News:
[If you don't count
Mean Girls as one of the best
movies of the last decade, then you just weren't paying enough attention. And
now Paramount Famous Productions has given the go-ahead on
Mean Girls
2 -- just a mere six years later. Given the first movie's superior Tina
Fey-penned humor, it would be tragic if this one were anything but fantastic.
The proposed plot goes something like this: "A new high
school student, Jo, who agrees to befriend an outcast, Abby, at the urging of
Abby's wealthy father in exchange for paying all of Jo's costs for the college
of her dreams. Jo and Abby team up to take on the school's 'mean girls,' the
Plastics. The story becomes a high stakes battle of loyalty that ultimately
comes to a head when one of our heroines finds out that her friendship has been
bought and paid for."]
Perhaps Lindsay could be fit into the script - in the background of counselor's office on a "Don't Do Drugs" poster. Might as well make all that experience count for something! In the "mean"time, we can whittle away the days until the Plastics make their triumphant return - but only if Tina Fey is writing what they're saying.
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