Tina Fey and Tim Meadows Will Make Fetch Happen Again in ‘Mean Girls’ Movie Musical

Class is back in session and your favorite teachers are at the chalkboard. Deadline reports that Tina Fey and Tim Meadows will be reprising their roles as Ms. Norbury and Principal Duvall in the forthcoming movie musical adaptation of Mean Girls.

Fey announced the news while appearing as a guest on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “Teachers work forever,” she told Meyers. “I want it to be like when Gilligan from Gilligan’s Island would be at a trade show and you’d be like, ‘Oh, he looks so old in his little hat.’ That’s my goal.”

Mean Girls has been a property close to Fey’s heart for awhile now. She wrote and starred in 2004 film alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, and her SNL pal Amy Poehler, who she’s coheadlining a four-city comedy tour this spring. In 2017, Fey wrote the book of the Broadway musical adaptation with while her husband, Jeff Richmond, wrote music and Nell Benjamin wrote the lyrics.

In December, a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical was announced starring Angourie Rice as Cady, Auli’i Cravalho as Janis, Jaquel Spivey as Damian, and Reneé Rapp as Regina George. As for changes from the stage musical to the movie musical, Fey insinuated that the film might evolve some, sonically speaking. “The songs are sounding really more kinda pop,” she said. “In Broadway everything has to play to the back of the house and in movies you can kind of come back in and things can play really intimately.”