Just FYI: Jennifer Aniston’s llama sweater is Isabel Marant. These are just some assorted photos of Aniston out and about in NYC last week. She seemingly went to NYC just to hang out with friends and not to see her fiancé Justin Theroux. I don’t think Theroux was in NYC at the same time. Weird, right? But it felt like Aniston wanted to be seen all of a sudden after “going dark” for two months following the Oscars. Aniston waged one of the most aggressive Oscar campaigns in recent history, and at the end of the day, Academy voters denied Aniston a nomination. But she did get to present, so at least there’s that.

Aniston repeatedly said during her aggressive Oscar campaign that she hoped Cake would be the signal to directors and producers that she could handle more complex roles, that she wasn’t just a rom-com actress. For what it’s worth… I have issues with Jennifer Aniston, but I’ve always thought she was a gifted comedienne. She has great timing, she can deliver well-written comedic lines and she’s not afraid to look foolish for the sake of a laugh. Her attempts to be “more” than a comedic actress have always gotten her into trouble. So… I for one was hoping that Cake would not bring her a truck full of drama scripts. And it hasn’t. It looks like Aniston’s first post-Cake film will be… a sequel to Mean Girls?!

New Line Cinema is setting Sean Anders to direct Mean Moms, and is targeting a summer start date for a film that has Jennifer Aniston eyeing the female-driven comedy. They worked together in Horrible Bosses 2 at New Line.

Mean Moms matches the spirit of Mean Girls with an adult cast. A happily married mother of two who moves from small-town America to the high–class suburbs suddenly must confront the cutthroat world of competitive parenting. Jill Messick is producing with Offspring Entertainment partners Jennifer Gibgot and Adam Shankman. Aniston doesn’t have a deal at this point and insiders in her camp said she has other options this summer, so stay tuned on this one.

Like Mean Girls, this movie is based on advice books written by Rosalind Wiseman. This film is based on Queen Bee Moms And King Pin Dads: Dealing With The Parents, Teachers, Coaches, And Counselors Who Can Make — or Break — Your Child’s Future; Mean Girls was based on Queen Bees And Wannabes. It isn’t precisely clear what role Aniston will play or if it will be closer in spirit to Rachel McAdams or Lindsay Lohan.

[From Deadline]

This has the potential to be really good and really funny. I hope that Aniston doesn’t get cast as the fish-out-of-water Lohan character. It would be much funnier (and truer to her real personality) if she was cast as the Queen Bee of the cool moms, the McAdams character. There’s a Mommy Mafia in LA and Aniston is very much aligned with that group (despite the fact that she doesn’t have kids). That’s who she is – she’s the “you can’t sit with us” Queen Bee.

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