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Twenty years later, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are negotiating a reunion for a sequel to the hit body swap comedy Freaky Friday.
The sequel is in the works at Disney, with Lohan and Curtis expected to reprise their roles as mother-daughter duo Anna and Tess Coleman. Elyse Hollander, whose work is blacklisted, is writing the screenplay.
Based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers, the story was adapted for the screen twice before the 2003 film – in 1976, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and in 1995, starring Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman. However, the Lohan Curtis version was the biggest hit, grossing over $160 million at the box office.
Rumors of a possible sequel circulated in February when Curtis posted a photo of her and Lohan on Instagram with the caption, “It’s Friday.” I’m just saying! Crazy thumbs!”
“It’s going to happen,” Curtis stated in an interview with Variety at the Producers Guild Awards on Feb. 26. “Without saying anything’s officially happening, right now I’m looking at you and I’m like, ‘Of course it’s going to happen.’ It will happen.”
The news was revealed in a New York Times interview with Lohan and Curtis to mark the 20th anniversary of Mark Waters’ 2003 film, which is about a mother and daughter who wake up on a Friday morning to find that… they swapped their bodies.
“When I was traveling the world with ‘Halloween Ends,’ people wanted to know if there was going to be another ‘Freaky Friday,'” Curtis told the New York Times. “Something really struck a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like a movie needs to be made.'”
Lohan added, “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’ll leave it to each other. We would just do something that people would absolutely love.”