Here’s the sto­ry from A to Z: a new Spice Girls movie is coming

Around the turn of the mil­len­ni­um, dur­ing the era of leop­ard print and plat­form sneak­ers and low-rise jeans, the Spice Girls reigned as the quin­tet queens of inter­na­tion­al pop. The UK group attained glob­al suc­cess on the back of upbeat girl-pow­er sin­gles ​‘Wannabe’ and ​’Say You’ll Be There’, their pop­u­lar­i­ty crest­ing with the fea­ture film vehi­cle Spice World in 1997.

With ​’90s nos­tal­gia at an all-time high, it would appear that the West­ern world once again wants to be the Spice Girls’ lovers, in which case we will have to first get with their plans for anoth­er out­ing at the cine­plex. This morn­ing, The Hol­ly­wood Reporter has the exclu­sive that Posh, Baby, Scary, Gin­ger and Sporty will return to the­aters in a new onscreen adven­ture – and that this time around, they’ll be in car­toon form.

Paramount’s ani­ma­tion unit has locked in all five mem­bers of the super­group to con­tribute vocal work to the project, which will be pro­duced in part by the ladies’ long­time man­ag­er Simon Fuller. They’ve tapped writ­ing part­ners Karen McCul­lah and Kirsten Smith to draw up a screen­play; on the one hand, the duo gave us the scripts for such sleep­over stan­dards as Legal­ly Blonde, The House Bun­ny, and 10 Things I Hate About You, but on the oth­er, their last joint work was this.

While the upcom­ing film has been con­firmed to con­tain new ren­di­tions of past Spice Girls chart-top­pers as well as com­plete­ly orig­i­nal songs, a plot has yet to be out­lined for the pub­lic. The idea for the film, what­ev­er the big hook may be, was report­ed­ly dreamt up by the women them­selves and then brought to the writ­ing team.

With each of the mem­bers now well into their for­ties, their usu­al mishaps with paparazzi and rabid fans may be paired with more age-appro­pri­ate mate­r­i­al, like con­tribut­ing to your 401k or eat­ing vit­a­mins. One hopes that what­ev­er sto­ry they fall into will be min­i­mal­ly influ­enced by recent events in the real world.