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Watch the Trailer for 2024's 'Mean Girls' Starring Reneé Rapp, Tina Fey, and Jon Hamm

By Dustin Rowles | Film | November 8, 2023

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The 2024 version of Mean Girls is adapted from the stage musical, which itself was adapted from Tina Fey’s 2004 film, which was inspired by Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes. The trailer for the film, however, doesn’t really feature any of the musical numbers, so it mostly looks like a remake of 2004’s version with a (mostly) different cast.

The cast is great — Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, and Jaquel Spivey are Cady, Regina, Janis, and Damian, respectively (and Sex Lives of College Girls’ Rapp is perfect) — and the new adult cast members (Jon Hamm, Busy Phillips, and Jenna Fischer) are good additions to Fey and Tim Meadows, reprising their roles from the earlier film.

The trailer, again, looks like a straight remake, but I don’t hate it mostly because I love Mean Girls and I am not opposed to a version with a different cast. The musical numbers are gravy.

Mean Girls arrives in theaters on January 12th.