Paramount Has Mean Girls

Paramount Pictures has tapped Mark S. Waters to direct the teen comedy Mean Girls.

The story centers on an adolescent girl who has been on safari with her zoologist parents but must navigate new terrain when she moves to an Illinois public school and falls in love with the ex-boyfriend of one of the most popular girls. Things turn ugly when she's reduced to using the same mean-spirited methods as the other girls.

Waters has specialized in female-driven comedies, including Disney's remake of Freaky Friday (due out next month), Head Over Heels and "The House of Yes."