15 Fey notoriously never ever thought about composing a follow up to the hit movie, a choice she’s gone on record as regretting. “At the time we did wish to begin the discussion about the follow up, and for whatever factor I resembled, ‘No!!! We should not do that!'” she informed EW in2014 “Now I look back and I’m like, ‘Why?’ But now, no—it’s too late now.”
As she informed Variety in 2018, nevertheless, “Maybe it’s better, because we can save all the energy for this.” This being the Mean Girls musical she composed with hubby and 30 Rock author Jeff Richmond that premiered in 2017 before opening on Broadway in April2018 Nominated for 12 Tony Awards and 9 Drama Desk Awards that year, it won Fey the award for Outstanding Book of a Musical at the latter.
And while there’s been no follow up ever made, there has actually been a movie produced bearing the name Mean Girls 2 The made-for-TV “sequel” aired on ABC Family (now Freeform) in 2011 and was a stand-alone story that had absolutely nothing to do with the initial movie aside from having Tim Meadows repeat his function as the school’s principal. It was not favored.
