The author behind the source material for mean girls is considering taking legal action against it Tina Fey and Paramount on what she calls “unpaid fees” for the franchise’s continued success.
Rosalind Wiseman – Author of Queen bees and wannabes, the basis of the 2004 cult-classic teen comedy – signed a deal in 2002 to sell her film rights for $400,000. While she relinquished all rights to original films and derivative works, including musicals and television shows, Wiseman’s contract included net profits, residual profits dependent on how the film performs at the box office. However, she claims his studio insisted that it had not made any net profits but had incurred so many additional costs that it had no revenue to share with her.
Wiseman isn’t convinced and is demanding more compensation because her work “changed our culture and the zeitgeist,” she says told the New York Post in a story published on Saturday. “Yes, I had a terrible contract, but the film made so much money and they recycle my work over and over again that they don’t even consider me.”
She said the “hypocrisy was too much,” adding, “Over the years, Tina has spoken so eloquently about women supporting other women, but I’ve come to realize that in my own personal experience, that’s not the experience.” becomes.”
CBS via Getty Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert and Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls
She chose Fey’s over several other film offers because “it was kind of a ‘let’s do this together’ experience,” Wiseman said.
Fey and Paramount representatives did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
With Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda SeyfriedAnd Lacey Chabert, mean girls was a box office hit, grossing $130 million worldwide, which later became a Broadway musical in 2017. Wiseman claimed a theatrical producer approached her decades ago about adapting her book into a musical, but Paramount and Fey denied the request and prevented her from getting paid, citing property rights.
“The trouble is, they used my name in the playbill,” Wiseman said. “And Tina said in her interviews I was the inspiration and the source, but there was no pay.”
Everett Collection Tim Meadows and Tina Fey in “Mean Girls”
Wiseman’s attorneys want to examine Paramount’s books over its claims of no net profits. “I suspect most people would be shocked at how shabbily Rosalind Wiseman was treated,” her attorney, Ryan Keech, said post. “It is downright shameful for a company with the resources of Paramount to go so far as to deny Ms. Wiseman what is quite due to her for creating one of the most iconic entertainment franchises in the last 25 years.”
“My client is reviewing all of her options up to and including litigation,” Reech told EW when reached out for further comment on Sunday.
Fey and the Broadway show’s producers announced a Film adaptation of the musical in 2020. Both She and Tim Meadows will reprise their roles. Wiseman said Fey did not contact her about the project.
“I haven’t checked in for a while for many reasons, and one of the reasons [is] because I was so focused on not whining or trying to ruin Tina,” she said. However, she added, “I firmly believe that in a position of power and privilege, you have a responsibility to share this in order to bring about justice.”
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