Disney is not sucking the enjoyable out of Freaky Friday 2, because the studio unveiled Monday that manufacturing is underway on the extremely anticipated movie — with stars from the unique 2003 film becoming a member of Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis for the sequel.
Along with Lohan and Curtis reprising their roles as Anna and Tess Coleman — a mother-daughter duo who switched our bodies because of a supernatural spell within the first movie — Disney unveiled that Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao may even return within the anticipated sequel.
Murray starred within the mission as Anna’s highschool crush, Jake, whereas Harmon performed Ryan, Tess’ new husband and Anna’s stepdad-to-be. Vidal Mitchell and Hudson will once more painting Anna’s bandmates, Maddie and Peg, with Soong and Chao once more co-starring because the proprietor of a Chinese language restaurant and her mom — each of whom harbored a mystic secret relating to the spell that results in Tess and Anna’s body-swapping journey.
Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Chad Michael Murray in ‘Freaky Friday’.
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Disney’s announcement additionally confirmed that the sequel formally started manufacturing Monday in Los Angeles, with new additions to the solid together with As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons (Beneath Wraps), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), and By no means Have I Ever star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.
Earlier this 12 months, Leisure Weekly obtained audition sides for Freaky Friday 2 (together with eight script pages) that included plot particulars involving Anna (now with a 14-year-old daughter of her personal) and Tess switching our bodies with two teenage women.
Disney’s announcement revealed additional plot particulars, noting that “the movie picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an id disaster. Anna now has a daughter of her personal and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two households merge, Tess and Anna uncover that lightning may certainly strike twice.”
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite to movie ‘Freaky Friday 2′.
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In keeping with the audition supplies obtained by EW, Anna’s daughter is “in a little bit of a temper lately as a result of her longtime single mother is about to marry British restaurateur Eric Davis,” with Eric additionally having a 14-year-old daughter who does “not see eye to eye” with Anna’s child — whilst their households are about to hitch collectively through marriage.
EW cannot affirm that the script sides from the audition are a part of the official script, and Disney didn’t present EW with remark on the time the audition was initially posted in March.
Late Evening director Nisha Ganatra will helm the film for Disney, over 20 years after the studio’s 2003 iteration of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 e-book, which was tailored right into a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.
Director Mark Waters’ Freaky Friday movie grew to become a world success on the field workplace for Disney, incomes over $160 million earlier than constructing a big viewers with repeat airings on the Disney Channel.
Watch Curtis and Lohan reunite on the set of Freaky Friday 2 above. The sequel is about for nationwide theatrical launch in 2025.