Rumours of a Freaky Friday sequel have been circulating for years, and it appears that a follow-up starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis is finally in the works. Lohan recently confirmed that a sequel to the iconic 2003 body-swap comedy is happening.
When asked by presenter Andy Cohen about the timeline for production, the ex-Disney star replied: “I won’t say that yet. I don’t want to say too much.” However, she did state that “we are both excited. I’m gonna speak for Jamie.”
Jamie Lee Curtis had previously spoken on the possibility of a Freaky Friday sequel, going as far as to suggest a new story for her character: “Let me be the grandma, let me be the old grandma who switches places, so then Lindsay gets to be the sexy grandma who’s still happy with Mark Harmon in all the ways you would be happy with Mark Harmon… I would like to see Lindsay be the hot grandma, and I would like to see me try to deal with toddlers today. I want to be a helicopter parent in today’s world.”
The 2003 film that starred Lohan, Curtis, and Harmon was the third film adaptation of the 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers, following the 1976 film starring Barbara Harris and a very young Jodie Foster, and a 1995 TV movie with Shelly Long and Gaby Hoffmann. Disney Channel also adapted Freaky Friday again since, turning it into a musical in 2018 starring Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff.