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Mean Girls The Musical the Movie trailer is not trying to make musicals happen (youtu.be)

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The trailer for the upcoming 2024 movie adaptation of Mean Girls the musical written by Jeff Richmond, Nell Benjamin and Tina Fey, which was an adaptation of the 2004 Mean Girls movie written by Tina Fey, which was an adaptation of the 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, has been released.

And there's nothing at all in the trailer which tells audiences that they'll be seeing a musical instead of a straight remake of the movie. This trailer is even more ashamed of its movie's musicalness than the Sweeney Todd trailer from 2007, which at least featured Johnny Depp warbling a few lines of "Epiphany" in the middle.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And there's nothing at all in the trailer which tells audiences that they'll be seeing a musical instead of a straight remake of the movie.

I saw a different trailer in theaters with no knowledge this movie was even happening, and seeing clips of group dance numbers immediately clued me in to "oh my god they're remaking it and it's a musical now".

Granted this was probably made for the Taylor Swift thing and they went "what the hell, put it in front of Five Nights at Freddy's too".

Very odd that they'd pull back from the musical stuff for the final trailer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wonder if this will be one of those times where the marketing strategy is totally at odds with the actual movie, cause that always bodes well for audience scores...