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  • The ‘Freaky Friday’ Sequel Is Happening

    The ‘Freaky Friday’ Sequel Is Happening

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    Back in the fall, it looked like Disney was considering a sequel to Freaky Friday, the 2003 version of the iconic body-swapping comedy. Apparently the considerations were very serious — as the film is now moving ahead, with both of its original stars, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan both expected to return for another Freaky Friday. (Freakier Friday?)

    A piece in The New York Times on the 20th anniversary of 2003’s Freaky Friday confirmed that the sequel is officially in the works. Besides revealing that the script is being written by Elyse Hollander, there wasn’t much more in the way of details, but Curtis did explain why she thinks the time is right for a sequel. As she put it…

    As I went around the world with Halloween Ends, people wanted to know if there was going to be another Freaky Friday. Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.’

    Lohan added “We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.”

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    Now that Lohan is old enough to be a mother herself (she is currently expecting her first child) there actually does seem to be a pretty ideal concept for another Freaky movie — perhaps with Jamie Lee Curtis’ grandmother swapping with the adult Lohan, or even a three-way swap with Lohan’s daughter or son (although really a daughter makes the most sense given the premise).

    The Freaky Friday concept originated in a 1972 novel by Mary Rogers. It was first adapted to the screen in 1976, in a film starring a young Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris. The most recent onscreen Freaky Friday was a 2018 musical version that aired on the Disney Channel.

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  • Disney Is Discussing a ‘Freaky Friday’ Sequel

    Disney Is Discussing a ‘Freaky Friday’ Sequel

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    We can all agree that the body swap comedy is the greatest of all movie genres. And of that genre, one of the more enduring concepts is Freaky Friday, where a mother and daughter swap bodies (or brains, depending on how you look at it) and have to pretend to be one another during a critical juncture in both their lives. The concept dates to a 1972 novel that Disney has adapted into movies in 1976, 1995, 2003, and 2018, along with many other stories and movies that are indebted to the idea (like the 2020 film Freaky where a teenage girl swaps places with a serial killer).

    Of all the movie versions, 2003’s Freaky Friday starring Jamie Lee Curtis as the mom and Lindsay Lohan as the daughter might be the most popular — or at least the version this generation of fans is most nostalgic about. Enough time has passed now that Lindsay Lohan could conceivably play the mom in her own version of the concept. So what about a sequel?

    Apparently, that’s a question that’s been on the minds of Disney executives lately. Curtis told Variety this week that she, Lohan, and Disney have been “talking” about a possible follow-up. (Freaky Saturday?) At the Glass Onion premiere, Curtis said:

    I’m 64 in a week and Lindsay is 36…[A sequel] lends itself so beautifully … we’re both committed to it, and it’s not ours to make. It’s Disney’s to make and I think they’re interested and we’re talking.

    The concept of body swaps really are perfect for our current age of legacyquels. How about a three-way swap with Lohan, Curtis, and a character who’s the age of Lohan’s character in the first movie? The concept seems like a slam dunk.

    Curtis doesn’t appear in Glass Onion, although she co-starred in the previous Benoit Blanc mystery, Knives Out. (She most recently starred in Halloween Ends, which is still streaming on Peacock.) Lohan can currently be seen in the new Netflix film Falling Into Christmas.

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