Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried inMean Girls(2004).Photo: CBS via Getty Images
Wiseman’s parental-help bookQueen Bees and Wannabeswas the source material for the hit 2004 comedy starringLindsay Lohan,Rachel McAdams,Lacey Chabert,Amanda Seyfriedand Fey, 52.
TheSaturday Night Livealum adapted theNew York Timesbest-selling author’s work intoMean Girlsand the film went onto become a pop-culture phenomenon,grossing $130 million worldwideand even inspiring a hitBroadway musical.
Reps for Paramount and Fey did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment Thursday morning.
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Rosalind Wiseman; Tina Fey.Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic; Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
The author claimed to thePostthat her original contract included net profits, but that Paramount has told herMean Girlsdid not make any.
“Yes, I had a terrible contract, terrible, but the movie has made so much money, and they keep recycling my work over and over again, so to not even consider me,” she said.
Referring to Fey, Wiseman told thePost, “It’s really what my work has been about, especiallyMean Girls. Women don’t have to be best friends — we can get mad at each other, but when it comes down to it we need to actually support each other.”
She also said, “We have reached out to Paramount to have things be more equitable, but Paramount is not interested in that.”
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Wiseman also recentlyshared a post on her Instagramabout the situation, saying it was important to speak about her “ongoing negative experience withMean Girlsas its inspiration and source material.”
She added, “People have been asking me ‘Are you ok?’ I am good — I am in control of my story and what happened to me.”
Wiseman’s lawyer, Ryan Keech, told thePost, “It is nothing short of shameful for a company with the resources of Paramount to go to the lengths to which it has gone to deny Ms. Wiseman what she is fairly entitled to for having created.”
Mean Girlshas become a cult classic since it premiered almost two decades ago, spawning numerous catchphrases and even inspiringits own national day.
Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert and Rachel McAdams inMean Girls(2004).CBS via Getty Images
Themain cast for the filmwas announced in December 2022.Senior YearactressAngourie Riceis set to star as Cady Heron andSex Lives of College GirlsstarRenée Rappwill reprise her Broadway role as Regina George.
Auli’i Cravalho, the voice actress behind the title character in 2016’sMoana, will play Janis, while Jaquel Spivey, from Broadway’sA Strange Loop, will play Damian.
Avantikaand Bebe Woodare set to play Regina’s Plastics cohorts, Karen and Gretchen, whileThe Summer I Turned PrettyactorChristopher Brineywill play Aaron Samuels.
In February, Fey announced thatshe and Tim Meadows would step back into their movie rolesas Ms. Norbury and Principal Duvall, respectively.
source: people.com
