Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are able to get freaky once more.
In the end, it seems a Freaky Friday sequel is admittedly within the works, with Nisha Ganatra directing, in line with The Hollywood Reporter. Andrew Gunn will return as producer together with former Disney exec Kristin Burr, per the outlet’s Friday, March 29, report.
Curtis, 65, and Lohan, 37, starred as mom and daughter within the 2003 Disney hit primarily based on the 1972 novel of the identical title. For the uninitiated, the story facilities on the duo switching our bodies and lives as hijinks ensue.
Disney has not introduced something formally, however Curtis posted images by way of her Instagram on Friday, seeming to substantiate the report. She first posted a display screen seize from the primary film with the caption solely being the examine mark emoji. She additionally posted a newer picture of the 2 collectively, captioned, “DUH! FFDEUX! @disney @disneystudios.”
Ganatra, 49, most lately directed the 2022 Hulu sequence Welcome to Chippendales. She has additionally directed episodes of Brooklyn 9-9, Expensive White Folks and Contemporary Off the Boat.
Mark Waters directed the 2003 film, which made $160.8 million on the field workplace. Disney confirmed final Might {that a} sequel was in improvement.
“As I went all over the world with Halloween Ends, folks needed to know if there was going to be one other Freaky Friday,” Curtis informed The New York Instances final yr. “One thing actually touched a chord. After I got here again, I referred to as my associates at Disney and stated, ‘It looks like there’s a film to be made.’”
Lohan added that she supported the thought.
“We’re leaving it within the palms that be,” she stated on the time. “We might solely make one thing that individuals would completely adore.”
In the identical characteristic, the 2 appeared again on their time capturing Freaky Friday and mirrored on the way it got here to be.
“I used to be in the course of a guide tour when my agent referred to as. An actress had been concerned within the film and selected to not do it; I used to be a alternative half,” Curtis recalled. “Had I had on a regular basis on the planet to arrange, I don’t suppose it might’ve been so good. I simply needed to be in my physique. I used to be additionally newly sober and I used to be capable of have a group throughout the movie-work world. That was an enormous deal for me.”
The Freaky Friday sequel is on observe for a summer season shoot in Los Angeles, in line with The Hollywood Reporter.