Released in December 2003 in our theaters, “Freaky Friday” will soon return to our theaters: still starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, its sequel has just started filming and will arrive on our screens in 2025.
The revival of films with Lindsay Lohan continues! After the musical version of Lolita despite me and in the meantime – who knows? – that Dad, I have a Mom for you or The Four of Us are revisited, make way for Freaky Friday. Not for a remake but a sequel.
Released in theaters on December 24, 2003, the film by Mark Waters (director of Lolita Despite Me) attracted 681,487 spectators in France and raked in nearly $161 million in revenue worldwide. But, without going so far as to speak of “worship”its notoriety goes well beyond questions of box office.
Inspired by the 1976 feature film of the same name, entitled A Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Friday at Home and directed by Jodie Foster, Freaky Friday plunged Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan into a story of “body swap” when a mother and her teenage daughter swap bodies. And the constraints that this implies.
Two decades later, the sequel began filming. Not a Friday, but a Monday. June 24 in this case. And the production did not fail to make it known by sharing a photo of the two main actresses behind the scenes.
(Not content with exchanging bodies again, they exchanged their respective lodges)
Chad Michael Murray will also be back, as will Mark Harmon, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao. And the cast will include a handful of newcomers, including Manny Jacinto, discovered in The Good Place, glimpsed in three shots in Top Gun Maverick and currently in the Star Wars series The Acolyte.
Directed by Nisha Ganatra, who directed the very nice Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, Freaky Friday 2 will go a step further than the first film, like any self-respecting sequel. Because the “body swap” will this time involve three people: Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) as well as the latter’s daughter.
Three heroines for even more complications, fantasy, twists and turns and, we hope, fun. In 2025 in movie theaters.
