Manufacturing on the long-awaited sequel to 2003′s “Freaky Friday,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, is formally underway.
On Monday, Disney unveiled a behind-the-scenes photograph from the set of “Freaky Friday 2,” exhibiting Curtis and Lohan in character as body-swapping mother-daughter duo Tess and Anna Coleman, respectively.
“The Colemans are back and coming to theaters in 2025!” the studio wrote on social media.
Directed by Nisha Ganatra, “Freaky Friday 2” will decide up with a now-adult Anna who’s elevating a daughter of her personal and is ready to grow to be a first-time stepmother.
In accordance with press notes, Tess and Anna will “discover that lightning might indeed strike twice” as they “navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge.”
Along with Curtis and Lohan, actors Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray and Rosalind Chao are amongst those that can even reprise their roles from the 2003 movie.
“Freaky Friday,” primarily based on Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel, follows a mom and daughter as they magically change our bodies. Although the 2003 film is one of the best identified amongst trendy audiences, the e-book was beforehand tailored for the display in 1976 with Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris and once more in 1996 with Shelley Lengthy and Gaby Hoffmann.
A stage musical adaptation premiered in 2016 and was produced for the Disney Channel two years later.
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Each Curtis and Lohan have been hinting about the likelihood of “Freaky Friday 2” in interviews for a while.
“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,” Curtis advised The New York Instances in Might 2023. “When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.’”
Lohan confirmed on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” in March {that a} sequel was within the works, however she stayed mum on particulars.
“I don’t want to say too much. And we’re both excited,” she mentioned. “I’m gonna speak for Jamie.”
Lohan welcomed her first little one, son Luai, with husband Bader Shammas in July 2023.
In 2022, she returned to performing after a near-decade hiatus, taking a starring function within the Netflix comedy “Falling for Christmas,” and in January, she had a shock cameo within the film musical adaptation of “Mean Girls,” which starred Reneé Rapp.
