A new version of Disney’s popular Freaky Friday has been confirmed and will star Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
The pair will reunite as the mother and daughter duo in the sequel to the 2003 comedy that saw them wake up one Friday morning having undergone a body swap.
Freaky Friday 2 is currently “in the works,” say sources at The Hollywood Reporter, with writer Elyse Hollander said to be writing the script.
Stars Lohan and Curtis are both said to be open to returning to finish what they started with the film franchise and have said regularly in the past how they are constantly asked if there will be any more Freaky Friday films.
Talking to the New York Times, Jamie Lee Curtis told how she has been asked about a Freaky Friday revamp when on promotional tours for other bits of her work so much, that she called Disney bosses to tell them she thought there was a gap in the market.
She said: “Something really touched a chord. When I came back (from promoting the 2022 horror film Halloween Ends) I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made’.”
Curtis unofficially confirmed the movie back in February and got fans excited.
Speaking to Variety at the Producers Guild Awards at the weekend, the Halloween Kills star said: “It’s going to happen. Without saying there’s anything officially happening, I’m looking at you in this moment and saying, ‘Of course it’s going to happen’. It’s going to happen.”
Bosses agreed and now initial work has begun on the next installment.
The film was based originally on a book written in 1972 by Mary Rodgers and was a box office hit, raking in $160 million around the world.
Lindsay Lohan has also previously said she would be open to shooting more Freaky Friday fun.
She said: “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be. We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.”
Lohan has not been on our screens for a while but last year did sign a two-film deal at Netflix, which included the festive room com movie ‘Falling for Christmas.”
