Twenty years after the body-swap comedy “Freaky Friday” was released, Disney Pictures is getting to work on a sequel.
In a retrospective look back at the movie, The New York Times reports that Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are in talks to reprise their roles in a follow-up.
In addition, Elyse Hollander has been hired to pen the script for this sequel to the story of a mother and daughter who wake up one Friday to find they have swapped bodies.
The 2003 film grossed $160.8 million off a $26 million budget and scoring mostly positive reviews that landed Curtis a Golden Globe nomination.
It was based on Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel, which was previously adapted to the screen twice before, most notably in the 1976 Disney classic with a young Jodie Foster alongside Barbara Harris. Shelley Long starred as the mother in a little-seen 1995 telemovie adaptation.
Curtis says she was receiving a lot of questions about the possibility of a sequel whilst out promoting “Halloween Ends” last year. Lohan, meanwhile, has been making something of a career comeback with a two-picture deal at Netflix.
Lohan tells the outlet: “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be. We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.”
