
Two decades removed from the original film, Variety reports that Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are in talks to return for a Freaky Friday sequel. If the deal is finalized, Lohan and Curtis will reprise their roles as Anna and Tess Coleman. Behind the scenes, Elyse Hollander is expected to pen the script for the sequel.
The first film, Freaky Friday, was released in 2003 with inspiration from Mary Rodgers’s 1972 novel of the same name. On a budget of $26 million, the film generated $160 million worldwide. The Lohan and Curtis-led film earned generally positive reviews from critics.
“Cute and innocently funny, with engaging turns from a beautifully silly Curtis, and Lindsay Lohan as a 21st-century high school heroine,” Angie Errigo of Empire Magazine wrote.
“It’s a conventional but pleasantly cozy remake of the 1976 Jodie Foster body-swap comedy. And in the oldest tradition of Disney moviemaking, you can be sure of a few life lessons thrown in between the laughs,” Stella Papamichael of BBC added.
Curtis has been bullish on the remake for some time now. At the Producers Guild Awards in February, she doubled down on the idea of a sequel.
“It’s going to happen,” Curtis told Variety.
“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.”