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Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan reunite to tease Freaky Friday sequel: 'DUH!'​

The Oscar-winning actress posted a photo of herself reuniting with Lohan 21 years after they first starred in the Disney comedy.
By
Joey Nolfi

Published on March 29, 2024




Body-swapping duo Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan have reunited to swap smiles and tease their long-awaited Freaky Friday sequel.

The on screen mother-daughter duo — who previously fronted Disney's beloved 2003 adaptation of the body-switching comedy — appeared together Friday on Curtis' Instagram in a sweet photo reunion that also previewed a potential continuation of the first movie.

"DUH! FFDEUX!" Curtis wrote in the photo's caption, while also tagging official accounts for Disney and its production arm.

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan have 'Freaky Friday' reunion.
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Curtis has long spoken about her desire to re-team with Lohan for a Freaky Friday sequel. The Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once star even told Entertainment Weekly last year during an interview for her Haunted Mansion movie that the WGA strikes impacted script development.

"Oh, it'll happen. For sure. Oh, for sure. There's no question," Curtis said at the time, and confirmed that the team had an idea of where they'd like the story to go in another film.

"Yes, except stories require writers, and right now there are no writers because they're all fighting for their lives, for their creative lives, for their emotional lives, and for their financial lives," she explained. "We're in the middle of a contract dispute. And so, until those writers get paid correctly and protected by the producers that make billions off of them, we will not be able to tell you any more about the Freaky Friday sequel, except that it is happening."



EW has reached out to representatives for Disney, Curtis, and Lohan for more information.

Director Mark Waters' Freaky Friday movie — about a supernatural force that causes a mother and daughter to inhabit each other's bodies over the course of several fateful days — became an instant fan-favorite title among the filmographies of both Curtis and Lohan, grossing over $160 million at the global box office while further launching Lohan to teen superstardom.
 
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Potential 'Freaky Friday 2' plot sees Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis body-swap with 2 teen girls

'Freaky Friday 2' potential plot details reveal Lindsay Lohan's Anna (now a mom herself) and Jamie Lee Curtis' Tess switching bodies with two teenage girls.
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Potential Freaky Friday 2 plot details reveal Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis body-swap with 2 teenage girls​

Anna has a 14-year-old "tomboy" daughter, Harper, who doesn't like her mom's British restauranteur lover, according to audition sides obtained by EW.
By
Joey Nolfi

Updated on April 1, 2024



New potential plot details for Disney's highly anticipated sequel Freaky Friday 2 reveal that an adult version of Lindsay Lohan's character, Anna Coleman, might be a bit of a fun-sucker herself as she and her mother, Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) switch lives not with each other this time, but with two teenage girls.

Days after news broke that Late Night director Nisha Ganatra would reunite Curtis and Lohan for the follow-up to 2003's Freaky Friday , the filmmaker shared to her Instagram Story an open casting call to fill the new role of Anna's 14-year-old daughter, Harper.

The call, shared over the weekend, describes Harper as "a tomboy with a sharp sense of humor" who's "in a bit of a mood these days because her longtime single mom is set to marry British restaurateur Eric Davis," according to the description.

According to the description, Eric also has a 14-year-old daughter, Lily, who does "not see eye to eye" with Harper — even as their families are about to join together via marriage.

Entertainment Weekly viewed the audition sides (including eight script pages) sent to prospective stars, which state "this is a 'body swap' scene," and that "Harper should channel 'Anna' (Lindsay Lohan) and Lily should channel 'Tess' (Jamie Lee Curtis)."

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Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Freaky Friday'.
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Additional character details for Harper posted in the casting call include a note that she "would like to see things go her way and use her intelligence to stop this marriage from ever happening," and stresses that the performance behind Harper "should be grounded, emotional, and as natural as possible."

Other pages sent as part of the audition include a scene where body-swapped Harper and Lily (really Anna and Tess) participate in a beach cleanup as part of school detention in which Tess (as Lily) voices concerns that Anna is set to move away from her to London to be with her new husband.

Other scenes in the audition script include the pair in their teenage form sitting in a kitchen sipping apple juice from wine glasses and Anna-as-Harper revealing that she fears she's lost touch with her teenage self, who memorably fronted a rock band in the first film.

EW can not confirm that the script sides from the audition are part of the official script. EW has reached out to Disney for comment.

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Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reunite for 'Freaky Friday 2'.
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On Friday, EW confirmed that Ganatra had boarded the long-gestating project after The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, which dropped hours after Curtis shared to Instagram a photo of an in-person reunion with Lohan.

Curtis, who won her first Oscar for her role in 2022's Everything Everywhere All at Once, has long spoken about her desire to re-team with Lohan for a Freaky Friday sequel. She even told EW last year during an interview for Haunted Mansion that the WGA strikes impacted script development, but that she hoped things would get back on track soon.

"Oh, it'll happen. For sure. Oh, for sure. There's no question," Curtis said at the time.

"Yes, except stories require writers, and right now there are no writers because they're all fighting for their lives, for their creative lives, for their emotional lives, and for their financial lives," she explained. "We're in the middle of a contract dispute. And so, until those writers get paid correctly and protected by the producers that make billions off of them, we will not be able to tell you any more about the Freaky Friday sequel, except that it is happening."

Director Mark Waters' Freaky Friday movie — about a supernatural force that leads to a mother-daughter duo's spirits to swap into each other's bodies — became a global hit at the box office, grossing over $160 million before building a further audience with subsequent airings on the Disney Channel throughout the decade.

The original Freaky Friday premiered in 1976 starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as the mother and daughter who switch bodies. The movie was also remade in 1995 with Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman, as well as in 2018 with Heidi Blickenstaff and Cozi Zuehlsdorff.
 
BenQ said:
I think the first one was a remake anyway
The og is from the 70s or 80s
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Freaky Friday (1976 film) - Wikipedia

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Freaky Friday is a 1976 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Gary Nelson, with the screenplay written by Mary Rodgers based on her 1972 novel. The film stars Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris in the lead roles. John Astin, Patsy Kelly and Dick Van Patten are featured in supporting roles. In the film, a mother and her daughter switch their bodies, and they get a taste of each other's lives. The cause of the switch is left unexplained in this film, but occurs on Friday the 13th, when Ellen and Annabel, in different places, say about each other at the same time, "I wish I could switch places with her for just one day." Rodgers added a water skiing subplot to her screenplay.

Freaky Friday was released theatrically in the United States on January 21, 1977, by Buena Vista Distribution. The film received positive reviews from critics with praise for Foster and Harris's performances and was a box office success, grossing $36 million on a $5 million budget. At the 34th Golden Globe Awards, it received three nominations: Best Actress – Comedy or Musical (for both Foster and Harris), and Best Original Song ("I'd Like to Be You for a Day"). The success of the film's release led to the launch of a franchise.
 

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