Disney is on the point of get its freaky on yet another time.
The studio has tapped Nisha Ganatra, who most lately helmed episodes of Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales, to direct a sequel to its 2003 household comedy Freaky Friday, giving the long-promised mission momentum and placing it on monitor for a summer time shoot in Los Angeles.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, who starred within the authentic, 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 hopes for a sequel for a number of years now, nevertheless it’s solely been in current 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 can be launched theatrically or debut on Disney+.
Disney has created a cottage business 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 e book 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 deliver the core idea of dwelling life in one other individual’s sneakers into trendy teen settings. Lohan is now not a teen and the brand new script, by Jordan Weiss, is alleged to deliver a multigenerational strategy to the story.
Curtis is, one some ranges, professionally hotter than ever, coming off an Oscar win for final yr’s sensation Every little thing All over the place All at As soon as and the current Halloween trilogy reboot.
Lohan is within the midst of a comeback, having starred in a few common Netflix romantic comedies, together with this yr’s Irish Want.
Ganatra is understood for bringing a lightweight contact to her sequence work, which spans episodes of And Simply Like That to Brooklyn 9-9. Her function work contains Late Evening, the Mindy Kaling-Emma Thompson comedy set within the late night time speak present world, and The Excessive Observe, the romantic drama set within the music enviornment that starred Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross.