Disney is taking us back to the early naughties and bringing back one of the most nostalgic movies of that era: 2003’s Freaky Friday. Rumors of a sequel swirled for years after stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan both expressed interest in reprising their roles as mother and daughter Tess and Anna Coleman, who wake up one Friday morning to find they’ve switched bodies. Now, it’s been confirmed that a follow-up is in the works, and both lead actors, as well as a few of their costars, will return for it. Here’s everything you need to know about Freaky Friday 2.
Freaky Friday 2 will arrive sometime in 2025
Although no official release date has been announced yet, Disney revealed that fans can expect the movie to be released in 2025. While some Disney sequels have gone straight to streaming, the media company said that Freaky Friday 2 will be released in theaters.
All of this was teased in an Instagram post on June 24, featuring Curtis and Lohan on the set of the sequel, sitting in front of each other’s trailers. “The Colemans are back and coming to theaters in 2025!” the caption read. “The sequel to Freaky Friday is now in production!”
Most of the cast will reprise their roles
In addition to Lohan and Curtis, many of the original film’s cast members will reprise their roles in the Freaky Friday sequel, including Mark Harmon as Ryan, Chad Michael Murray as Jake, Stephen Tobolowsky as Elton Bates, Christina Vidal as Maddie, Haley Hudson as Peg, Rosalind Chao as Pei-Pei, and Lucille Soong as Pei-Pei’s mother.
A few new stars have been added to the sequel’s cast, including Matreyi Ramakrishnan (Never Have I Ever), Sophia Hammons (The Social Dilemma), Julia Butters (The Fabelmans), and Manny Jacinto (The Good Place).
Nisha Ganatra is directing
Nisha Ganatra has been confirmed as the director of the Freaky Friday sequel. It will be Ganatra’s first feature-film directing credit since 2020’s The High Note. Other films Ganatra has directed include Late Night, The Hunters, Chutney Popcorn, and Cosmopolitan.
On the TV side, she has directed episodes on a number of critically acclaimed comedy series, including Girls, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Shameless, and The Mindy Project.She received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series for her work on the Amazon dramedy Transparent.
Jordan Weiss (Dollface) will be writing the screenplay. The original Freaky Friday was directed by Mark Waters, and the screenplay was written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, adapted from the 1972 children’s novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers.
The plot may include a double body swap
According to Entertainment Weekly, Ganatra put out a casting call, in spring 2024 looking to fill the role of Anna’s daughter Harper in the new film. In the casting call, Harper was described as “a tomboy with a sharp sense of humor [who’s] in a bit of a mood these days because her longtime single mom is set to marry British restaurateur Eric Davis.” The description also noted that Eric has his ownteenage daughter, Lily, who doesn’t see “eye to eye” with Harper.
EW saw pages from the script that – although they were not confirmed to be final – appeared to describe scenes in which Tess and Anna switch bodies with the two teenage girls. Assuming Tess and Anna also switch bodies with each other again, there might be a double body-swap to look forward to when Freaky Friday 2 hits theaters.
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