For Mark Waters, it’s like a daydream become reality: The “Mean Girls” director revealed to MTV News that he may once again pick up the reigns of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” three years after he lost his first chance at the project due to Hurricane Katrina.

“Mike Myers is taking it over completely, throwing out the screenplay. He’s starting over with a new screenplay that he’s going to write,” Waters said. “I may end up circling back to it because Mike and I have developed things together. If his screenplay ends up really great I might end up jumping back into it with him.”

If Waters ever does wind up getting “Mitty” made, it’ll be the culmination of a fantasy worthy of, well, Mitty himself - a beleaguered daydreamer who fantasizes about intrigue and adventure in both the short story by James Thurber and 1947 movie adaptation starring Danny Kaye.

But like Mitty’s daydreams of winning the girl, Waters got THIS close once before.

“We had a green-lit movie at Paramount, it was ready to go. I came right to the edge of the cliff and was going to make that movie with Owen Wilson and Scarlett Johansson, and basically we were shooting in New Orleans and starting to build our stages when Katrina hit,” Waters recalled. “We had to kind of to drop back and reconfigure, and suddenly Owen was taking other projects and I was never available.”

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