Freaky Friday—the 2003 model that’s grow to be one in every of Disney’s standout early-aughts live-action teen films—is lastly getting a sequel.
After years of claiming they’d do it, Jamie Lee Curtis (Borderlands) and Lindsay Lohan (Irish Want) have lastly manifested Freaky Friday 2, which they teased right this moment in an Instagram submit. The Hollywood Reporter additionally confirmed the information that Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales filmmaker Nisha Ganatra is aboard to direct the reunion, and that producer Andrew Gunn will return to supervise the movie with ex-Disney exec Kristen Burr.
Freaky Friday has been a recurrent franchise at Disney for the reason that 1976 movie starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris as the teenager daughter and mother who change our bodies. Each that movie and the 2003 remake are primarily based on Mary Rodgers’ novel by the identical title, which has had quite a few different variations, together with a musical, all centering on the basic comedic dynamic that comes when characters plunge proper into the era hole—to not point out the enjoyable of seeing a younger actor get to play a mother within the mistaken physique, and vice versa. As THR notes, “Lohan is not a teen and the brand new script, by Jordan Weiss, is alleged to convey a multigenerational strategy to the story.”
Disney has but to disclose if Freaky Friday 2, which begins taking pictures this summer season, might be getting a theatrical launch or going straight to Disney+.
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