David Bridges
Freaky Friday—the 2003 variation that’s turned into one of Disney’s standout early-aughts live-action teenager flicks—is lastly obtaining a follow up.
After years of claiming they’d do it, Jamie Lee Curtis (Borderlands) and Lindsay Lohan (Irish Desire) have actually lastly shown up Freaky Friday 2, which they teased today in an Instagram blog post. The Hollywood Press Reporter additionally verified the information that Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales filmmaker Nisha Ganatra is aboard to route the get-together, which manufacturer Andrew Gunn will certainly go back to supervise the movie with ex-Disney director Kristen Burr.
Freaky Friday has actually been a frequent franchise business at Disney because the 1976 movie starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris as the teenager child and mama that change bodies. Both that movie and the 2003 remake are based upon Mary Rodgers’ unique by the exact same name, which has actually had countless various other adjustments, consisting of a music, all fixating the traditional comical dynamic that comes when personalities dive right into the generation void—in addition to the enjoyable of seeing a young star reach play a mother in the incorrect body, and the other way around. As THR notes, “Lohan is no more a teenager and the brand-new manuscript, by Jordan Weiss, is stated to bring a multigenerational strategy to the tale.”
Disney has yet to expose if Freaky Friday 2, which begins capturing this summer season, will certainly be obtaining a staged launch or going directly to Disney+.
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