Freaky Friday—the 2003 model that’s turn into certainly one of Disney’s standout early-aughts live-action teen motion pictures—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 at this time in an Instagram put up. 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 because the 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 identify, which has had quite a few different diversifications, together with a musical, all centering on the traditional comedic dynamic that comes when characters plunge proper into the technology 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 now not a teen and the brand new script, by Jordan Weiss, is alleged to carry a multigenerational strategy to the story.”
Disney has but to disclose if Freaky Friday 2, which begins capturing this summer season, shall be getting a theatrical launch or going straight to Disney+.
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