Mean Girls director to helm film disappointingly titled with a hashtag: '#Catfight'

Comedy will centre on a 'high school showdown'

Mean Girls recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary

Mean Girls director Mark Waters is set to helm a new teen comedy called #Catfight.

I wish I could tell you that the hashtag is there because the film is a send-up of social media obsession, but there isn't a trace of it in the synopsis.

From Deadline:

"The protagonist is Lucy, an insecure high school girl with a single mom who earns a scholarship to an elite private high school for her senior year and attempts to reinvent herself by hiding a past she wants to put behind her. On the day of her recruitment interview with her dream college, she finds out the boy she is dating has a psychotic ex-girlfriend. She has just come back from juvie that morning to challenge the college-bound girl to a fight after school. She tries to get her college admissions work behind her and keep up the prep school facade, before this showdown. Maybe she also can take down this maniacal rival and score one for bullied kids everywhere."

#Catfight's script will come from Amelie Gillette and the film will be produced by Will Gluck, Brian Gatewood and Alex Tanaka, with there being no word on the cast as yet.

This isn't technically the first hashtag-titled film, that dubious honour went to #HoldYourBreath, and many have been stylised with one for marketing purposes, but this is the first major movie to adopt one as it's proper name.

Waters previously directed Freak Friday, Mr Popper's Penguins and The Spiderwick Chronicles.