While most teen flicks are rubbish, 2004’s Mean Girls was great, not only giving Lindsay Lohan a tiny smidge of credibility, but proving to the world that screenwriter Tina Fey was more than just a SNL performer, and that she had an acid sharp wit and wonderful way with both comedy and human relationships.
The film was actually adapted from Rosalind Wisemans advice book Queen Bees And Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, And The New Realities Of Girl World, and now it seems Hollywood is hoping lightning will strike again with a sequel that’s not a sequel.
Variety reports that New Line has bought the rights to Wiseman’s book, Queen Bee Moms And King Pin Dads: Dealing with the Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counsellors Who Can Make – or Break – Your Child’s Future, and plans to make it into a movie, currently called Mean Moms, which has more than a whiff of a grown-up Mean Girls to it.
The plot will once more see a family moving home, this time focussing on the mother, who comes from a small town to the high class suburbs, and discovers it’s far harder to fit into this competitive parenting environment, where giving your child every chance is as much about social position as genuinely want the best for your offspring. The newly arrived mom has to navigate the space between being too passive and overly agressive in her parenting style.
Dara and Chad Creasey are on scripting duties, while Hairspray and Bedtime Stories director Adam Shankman is onboard to produce. There’s no news as to whether he also plans to helm, probably because he won’t make a decision on that until the script is further down the line. However, what they really need is Tina Fey, as that would certainly make this one to watch out for.