Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan and Nisha Ganatra
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Disney is on the brink of get its freaky on another time.
The studio has tapped Nisha Ganatra, who final helmed episodes of Hulu mini-series Welcome to Chippendales, to direct a sequel to its 2003 household comedy Freaky Friday, giving the long-promised venture momentum and placing it on observe for a summer time shoot in Los Angeles.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, who starred within the unique, are in negotiations to reprise their roles because the mom and daughter combo who discover themselves switching our bodies and lives.
Curtis and Lohan have talked of their hoped for a sequel for a number of years now, but it surely’s solely been in latest weeks that talks started in earnest. On Friday, Curtis posted a photograph of herself with Lohan on Instagram.
Andrew Gunn, who produced the 2003 film, is producing together with former Disney exec Kristin Burr. It’s unclear whether or not the function will likely be launched theatrically or debut on Disney+.
Disney has created a cottage trade with Freaky Friday, which incorporates a number of motion pictures in addition to a Broadway manufacturing. The franchise is predicated on the 1972 youngsters’s guide by Mary Rogers and the unique adaptation, launched in 1976, starred Barbara Harris because the mom and Jodie Foster because the daughter. Every installment tried to convey the core idea of dwelling life in one other particular person’s footwear into trendy teen settings. Lohan is not a teen and the brand new script, by Jordan Weiss, is alleged to convey a multi-generational method to the story.
Curtis is, one some ranges, professionally hotter than ever, coming off an Oscar win for final 12 months’s sensation Every thing All over the place All at As soon as and the latest Halloween trilogy reboot.
Lohan is within the midst of a comeback, having starred in a few in style Netflix romantic comedies, together with this 12 months’s Irish Want.
Ganatra is thought for bringing a lightweight contact to her sequence work, which spans episodes of And Simply Like That… to Brooklyn 9-9. Her function work consists of Late Evening, the Mindy Kaling-Emma Thompson comedy set within the late evening discuss present world, and The Excessive Word, the romantic drama set within the music world that starred Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross.