Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are able to get freaky once more.
In the end, it seems a Freaky Friday sequel is absolutely within the works, with Nisha Ganatra directing, based on 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 based mostly on the 1972 novel of the identical identify. 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 photographs through 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 verify mark emoji. She additionally posted a newer photograph of the 2 collectively, captioned, “DUH! FFDEUX! @disney @disneystudios.”
The scream queen! Jamie Lee Curtis has had an extended and profitable profession, beginning off in iconic horror movies earlier than venturing into hit comedies. The Fierce Creatures actress was born in Santa Monica, California, to actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. Jamie went on to check legislation on the College of the Pacific in Stockton, […]
Ganatra, 49, most lately directed the 2022 Hulu sequence Welcome to Chippendales. She has additionally directed episodes of Brooklyn 9-9, Pricey White Individuals and Recent 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 growth.
“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 advised The New York Occasions final yr. “One thing actually touched a chord. Once I got here again, I referred to as my mates at Disney and stated, ‘It seems like there’s a film to be made.’”
Lohan added that she supported the concept.
Lindsay Lohan is not any stranger to the highlight. After modeling as a baby, Lohan starred as twins Annie James and Hallie Parker in 1998’s The Dad or mum Entice alongside Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson. Following the film’s success, she scored a three-film contract with Disney. “I used to be 10 after I did Dad or mum Entice,” Lohan recalled to […]
“We’re leaving it within the fingers that be,” she stated on the time. “We’d 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 e book 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 substitute half,” Curtis recalled. “Had I had on a regular basis on the planet to organize, I don’t suppose it will’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 neighborhood throughout the movie-work world. That was an enormous deal for me.”
The Freaky Friday sequel is on monitor for a summer time shoot in Los Angeles, based on The Hollywood Reporter.
