Greater than 20 years later, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are switching locations…once more.
The enduring duo reprise their respective roles for “Freakier Friday,” the sequel to the beloved 2003 movie “Freaky Friday.” Curtis and Lohan are a mom and daughter whose dynamic has shifted since Lohan’s character is now a mother herself to a teen (Julia Butters). Mark Harmon and Chad Michael Murray are each again for the sequel, together with new solid members Butters, Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Sophia Hammons. Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao additionally star.
“Late Evening” director Nisha Ganatra is helming the movie.
Curtis beforehand confirmed that “Freakier Friday” was getting a theatrical launch from Disney.
“Sure, you heard me…The theaters,” Curtis wrote on Instagram in 2024 when talking about leaked pics from manufacturing. “The place all of us go and revel in a shared expertise in the dead of night whereas munching popcorn and sweet and laughing collectively and generally crying collectively. Till then.”
Curtis added on the time, “As a result of different shops have posted it, I’m going to reap the benefits of the intrusion of a paparazzi image into the inventive means of filmmaking. We now have tried so laborious to maintain our story a secret and personal till it’s time for launch however every now and then a picture comes out, and it doesn’t inform you something in regards to the story or about what’s happening with the characters nevertheless it does present the enjoyment and enjoyable that we had making ‘Freakier Friday’ and we all know it will likely be the expertise that you’ll have within the theaters subsequent 12 months [in 2025].”
Curtis additionally shared in 2022 that she envisioned the storyline following three generations. “Let me be the grandma! Let me be the outdated grandma who switches locations,” Curtis mentioned. “So then Lindsay will get to be the attractive grandma, who continues to be pleased with Mark Harmon in all of the methods you’ll be pleased with Mark Harmon. And easily, I wish to see Lindsay be the recent grandma, and I wish to see me attempt to take care of toddlers immediately. I wanna be a helicopter guardian in immediately’s world, as an outdated girl.”
“Freakier Friday” premieres August 8. Try the teaser trailer beneath.