It is nearly formally time to freak out.
It is being reported that the Freaky Friday sequel is a go after Disney tapped Nisha Ganatra because the movie’s director. In response to The Hollywood Reporter, who was first to interrupt the information about touchdown Ganatra, the wheels are actually in movement for manufacturing to start ramping up this summer season and movie the undertaking in Los Angeles.
The outlet additionally reported that the 2003 comedy’s authentic stars, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, are in negotiations to reprise their daughter-mother roles. Andrew Gunn is again as producer. Kristin Burr, Ann Marie Sanderlin are additionally producing. The Hollywood Reporter says it stays unclear if the movie will premiere on Disney+ or if it will get a theatrical launch.
For years now there’s been a lot of chatter a few sequel. In Could 2023, ET confirmed {that a} sequel was in improvement at Disney, and each Curtis and Lohan have been each in talks to return. Moreover, ET had discovered a script was being labored on by Elyse Hollander, a newcomer screenwriter finest identified for penning the Black Checklist-beloved screenplay, Blonde Ambition.
Curtis had been championing a sequel, based mostly on ideas she bought from followers and studies throughout press tour for Halloween Ends.
“As I went all over the world with Halloween Ends, individuals needed to know if there was going to be one other Freaky Friday. One thing actually touched a chord,” Curtis recalled final 12 months to The New York Occasions. “Once I got here again, I known as my buddies at Disney and stated, ‘It seems like there’s a film to be made.'”
“Jamie and I are each open to that,” Lohan shared to The Occasions. “So we’re leaving it within the fingers that be.”
Then, earlier this month, Lohan formally confirmed the thrilling information on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Reside after host Andy Cohen requested about rumors of a sequel.
“It’s,” Lohan stated of the undertaking being within the works. “I do not wish to say an excessive amount of.”
Quickly after whereas chatting with ET, Lohan opened up about the place she want to discover her character, Anna Coleman, within the new installment.
“An applicable one for the film,” Lohan stated. “We wish to give essentially the most to all our followers and the those that love the movie, and simply wish to ship an excellent efficiency.”
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