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By Movieguide® Contributor
Disney’s FREAKY FRIDAY is getting a sequel 22 years after the original’s release.
“The Colemans are back and coming to theaters in 2025! The sequel to FREAKY FRIDAY is now in production!” Disney announced on X on June 24.
“The sequel picks up years after Tess and Anna switched bodies, with Anna now having a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. According to the film’s synopsis, “As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice,” The Hollywood Reporter said.
The original movie’s leads — Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Chad Michael Murray and Mark Harmon — are all set to return. LATE NIGHT’s Nisha Gantra is tagged to direct.
“While Lohan and Curtis teased FREAKY FRIDAY 2 during much of 2023, it wasn’t until this March that Disney officially announced the sequel was moving forward,” Variety reported.
This time around, Lohan will executive produce along with Nathan Kelly and Ann Marie Sanderlin, while Curtis will produce with Kristin Burr and original FREAKY FRIDAY producer Andrew Gunn.
“Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao, who all appeared in the 2003 film, will also return,” The Hollywood Reporter said, with “newcomers Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.”
The original movie, which is based on the 1972 book by Mary Rodgers, earned $110m in the U.S. and $160m worldwide.
“WE ARE FREAKING OUT because the Coleman’s are getting FREAKY AGAIN!” Curtis excitedly shared on Instagram on June 24.
Disney’s Tiktok shared a reel of Curtis and Lohan in their movie trailers:
@disneystudios The band’s back together and coming to theaters in 2025 🤘. The sequel to Freaky Friday is now in production!
Part of Movieguide®’s review of the original movie reads:
In the familiar story adapted from Mary Rodgers well-known novel, Lindsay Lohan of 1998’s THE PARENT TRAP plays 15-year-old Anna Coleman, who’s not getting along with her mother, Tess. A professional psychologist and widow, Tess is preoccupied with her plans to get remarried and with her book that’s just come out. Anna is upset that her mother doesn’t support her musical aspirations, and Tess is disappointed to learn that one of Anna’s teacher, Mr. Bates, with whom Anna also doesn’t get along, gave her detention twice in one day. Things come to a head when Anna and her rock band get a chance to audition the same night as her mother’s rehearsal dinner…
Of course, the problem with the FREAKY FRIDAY concept is that it relies upon a false religious notion that souls can switch bodies. Christian theology teaches, however, that this is impossible. Also, in this version of the story, a magical fortune cookie is the culprit behind the curse. On the other hand, the only way that the curse can be broken is by an act of selfless love that both Tess and Anna must perform. The movie supports this redemptive aspect by having a few morally uplifting, touching scenes between Tess, Anna, Tess’s fiance, and Anna’s brother.
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