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Tina Fey discusses Mean Girls the Musical

It looks as though yet another hit film will be getting the Broadway treatment as funny woman Tina Fey confirms there are plans to adapt the teen hit Mean Girls into a musical.

The actress who recently co-hosted the Golden Globes and won a SAG award for her role in 30 Rock, both wrote and starred in the hit 2004 film that saw Lindsey Lohan become a house hold name, before the bad publicity.

Fey told E! News at the Screen Actors Guild Awards that the musical version could “maybe” be made.

She went on to say "We want to … I would love to, yeah.

I'm trying to develop it actually with my husband, who does all the music for 30 Rock. And I think Paramount's on board, yeah."

The potential musical would see the hit film join the ranks of other hit films to make the transition from screen to stage such as Legally Blonde, Sister Act and 9 to 5.

Whether the film will make its way to the stage is yet to be seen as these things to take, so for now watch this space.

Will J.J Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII see a female lead?

With the announcement a few months back that a seventh Star Wars film was in the works the rumour mill of Hollywood has already been flying into overdrive, but a new announcement could put a new spin on the latest instalment in the franchise.

With everyone just getting over the fact that Star Trek director J.J Abrams will be directing the latest intergalactic adventure, it has been suggested the main character in the film could be a woman.

It has been reported that Kick-Ass 2 heroine Chloe Grace Moretz was pitched to the studio as the leading lady for the project when Matthew Vaughn was being considered for the directing role.

Although it isn’t clear whether this had any indication for Vaughn’s vision for the latest offering and nothing has been announced or set in stone for the project, it would be intriguing to see a female lead in an otherwise male dominated franchise that could bring it right up to date.

Meanwhile in other Star Wars news it has been announced that the planned 3D treatments of the remaining prequels of the film series have been shelved in order to concentrate on the upcoming film.

It looks as though we may just have to sit and wait as the rumour mill on this eagerly anticipated film continues to churn out more stories.