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Twenty years later, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are successful talks to reunite for a sequel to nan deed body-swap drama “Freaky Friday.”
The sequel is successful nan useful astatine Disney, pinch Lohan and Curtis expected to reprise their roles arsenic mother-daughter duo Anna and Tess Coleman. Elyse Hollander, whose activity has been featured connected nan Black List, is penning nan script.
Based connected Mary Rodgers’ 1972 caller of nan aforesaid name, nan communicative was adapted for nan surface doubly earlier nan 2003 movie — successful 1976 starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and successful 1995 pinch Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman. But nan Lohan-Curtis type recovered nan astir success, scoring complete $160 cardinal astatine nan container office.
Rumors started circulating astir a imaginable sequel successful February, erstwhile Curtis posted a photograph of her and Lohan connected Instagram pinch nan caption, “It’s Friday. I’m conscionable sayin! Freaky fingers crossed!”
“It’s going to happen,” Curtis elaborated successful an interview pinch Variety at nan Producers Guild Awards connected Feb. 26. “Without saying there’s thing officially happening, I’m looking astatine you successful this infinitesimal and saying, ‘Of people it’s going to happen.’ It’s going to happen.”
The news was revealed successful a New York Times question and reply pinch Lohan and Curtis celebrating nan 20th day of nan 2003 film, directed by Mark Waters, which follows a mom and girl who aftermath up 1 Friday greeting to find they’ve swapped bodies.
“As I went astir nan world pinch ‘Halloween Ends,’ group wanted to cognize if location was going to beryllium different ‘Freaky Friday,'” Curtis told nan New York Times. “Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends astatine Disney and said, ‘It feels for illustration there’s a movie to beryllium made.'”
Lohan added, “Jamie and I are some unfastened to that, truthful we’re leaving it successful nan hands that be. We would only make thing that group would perfectly adore.”
