Finally a concept Hollywood can get right — “Mean Moms.”
Adam Shankman will be producing a big screen adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman’s “Queen Bee Moms and King Pin Dads: Dealing with the Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors Who Can Make — or Break — Your Child’s Future,” a spiritual sequel of sorts to “Mean Girls” that will follow the struggle of a suburban mom in finding herself when she moves her family to a chi-chi neighborhood.
Unfortunately, Tina Fey — who adapted “Queen Bees and Wannabees” into “Mean Girls” — is not attached. Husband and wife writing team Dara and Chad Creasey (“Pushing Daisies”) will adapt the semi self-help book, which is geared towards the kind of parents who need to be friends with their kids when they should be parenting them.
Shankman will again team up with producers Jennifer Gibgot and Jill Messick for New Line on this project, which will make this the fourth film the trio has worked on for the studio — the last being the Zac Efron starrer “17 Again” which revisited the out-of-body, time-traveling “where did my life go” plot line that results from an adult male’s meltdown in the face of frustrated life choices.
While casting will be integral — we’re looking at Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd here, but they’ll probably pass — the jokes will just write themselves when it comes to overzealous and success-seeking moms. Just imagine fights over soccer games, bake sales and the dreaded POOL PARTIES! Sigh…