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“Freaky Friday 2” is formally taking place at Disney, with Nisha Ganatra tapped to direct. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are in talks to reprise their roles from the 2003 comedy.
Ganatra most not too long ago directed episodes of Hulu’s “Welcome to Chippendale’s.” Her different credit embrace the 2020 movie “The Excessive Be aware” with Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross, together with 2019’s “Late Evening,” starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson.
Rumors of a “Freaky Friday” sequel first started to swirl in October 2022, when Curtis advised “The View” co-hosts that she had “already written to Disney” concerning a sequel. Since then, each Curtis and Lohan have been vocal about their need to reunite for an additional body-swapping comedy.
On Friday, Curtis shared a photograph with Lohan on Instagram, tagging Disney and captioning the snap, “DUH! FFDEUX!”
Disney launched “Freaky Friday” in 2003, grossing $160 million on the worldwide field workplace. Andrew Gunn, who produced the primary movie, is producing the sequel, together with former Disney exec Kristin Burr. Disney’s launch plan stays to be introduced, together with a date and a streaming or theatrical debut.
Lohan was most not too long ago seen in Netflix’s romantic comedy “Irish Want” and had a cameo within the 2024 “Imply Ladies” reboot because the moderator of the Mathletes competitors. She’s subsequent set to star in Netflix’s “Our Little Secret” alongside Kristin Chenoweth and Ian Harding.
Curtis, who gained an Oscar in 2023 for her efficiency in “All the things All over the place All At As soon as,” will seem on this summer season’s movie adaptation of the favored online game “Borderlands” alongside Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart.
Ganatra is represented by CAA and Yorn Levine.
The Hollywood Reporter was first to report the information.