to Freaky Friday A sequel is officially in the works for Disney with both Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis returning, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Details of the film’s plot have not been shared, but Elise Hollander is writing the script. released in 2003, Freaky Friday It was already a remake; It originated as a novel by Mary Rodgers in 1972, and its first film adaptation followed in 1976. But the Lohan-Curtis version — written by Heather Hatch and Leslie Dixon and directed by Mark Waters — has become a fan favorite thanks to several others. Stuff, Lohan’s punky Anna, her band Pink Slip, and a stunning scene in which Curtis and Chad Michael Murray sing Britney Spears’ “… Baby One More Time.” It has grossed over $160 million worldwide.
Lohan and Curtis have always been poised to reprise their roles in the film, which sees mother and daughter swap bodies and learn to accept their differences. Just in the past year, Lohan — who is embarking on a bit of a professional comeback thanks to the 2022 Netflix movie Falling at Christmas She told Jimmy Fallon that Curtis pitched her a plot idea for the sequel. Curtis, hot off The end of Halloween And Everything is everywhere at onceshe doubled down, revealing that she had written to Disney with her idea. Let the LiLo renaissance begin!
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