Mean Girls Movie Musical: Everything We Know!

Rosalind Wiseman isn't a regular writer, she's a chill writer.

And aft her publication Queen Bees and Wannabes was adapted into the 2004 movie Mean Girls, the 54-year-old says she is considering ineligible enactment against Paramount Pictures implicit what she claims is simply a deficiency of compensation.

"We person reached retired to Paramount to person things beryllium much equitable," she told the New York Post successful an interrogation published March 17. "For truthful long, I was truthful quiescent astir it, but I conscionable consciousness similar the hypocrisy is excessively much."

Rosalind said she made conscionable implicit $400,000 successful 2002 aft signing a woody to merchantability her movie rights. But aft Tina Fey's movie inspired a Broadway musical, which is present being turned into a abstracted movie, Rosalind says she wants to beryllium supported.

"I deliberation it's just for maine to beryllium capable to get compensated successful immoderate mode for the enactment that has changed our civilization and changed the zeitgeist," she said. "Over the years, Tina's spoken truthful eloquently astir women supporting different women, but it's gotten progressively wide to maine that, successful my ain idiosyncratic experience, that's not going to beryllium the experience."

Rosalind archetypal met Tina successful 2002 aft she signed a improvement woody with Paramount. The archetypal pistillate caput writer connected Saturday Night Live asked to bargain the movie rights to Queen Bees aft speechmaking Rosalind's New York Times Magazine screen story. 

While Rosalind told the Post she signed away successful perpetuity each rights to archetypal question pictures and derivative works, including musicals and TV projects, successful her archetypal contract, she said there was nary treatment of immoderate different projects astatine the time.

"Just due to the fact that you tin doesn't marque it right," she said. "Yes, I had a unspeakable contract, but the movie has made truthful overmuch money, and they support recycling my enactment implicit and implicit again."

"We created this thing, Tina took my words, she did an bonzer occupation with it," Rosalind continued. "She brought it to beingness and the worldly has been utilized and recycled for the past 20 years. I'm intelligibly recognized and acknowledged by Tina arsenic the root material, the inspiration. I'm recognized and yet I merit nothing?"

According to Rosalind, the past clip she saw Tina was successful April 2018 astatine the Broadway premiere of Mean Girls. 

"What's hard is that they utilized my sanction successful the Playbill," she said. "And Tina, successful her interviews, said I was the inspiration and the source, but determination was nary payment."