For the past six months – ever since Jamie Lee Curtis confirmed that she and 00s teen rom-com queen Lindsay Lohan were still in touch - there have been rumours floating about that the iconic 2003 film Freaky Friday could be back for a sequel.
And finally we have the answer that we all wanted, nay needed. The body swap comedy is back for a second instalment.
Yep, Disney is apparently on board for another film, 20 years after the first, which sees Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) wake up one day (Friday specifically, hence the name of the film) and find that they have swapped bodies.
Whilst we don’t know much about the upcoming Freaky Friday 2, we can tell you that the original Freaky Friday cast – namely Jamie and Lindsay – are in talks to appear. As for Ryan Malgarini as Harry, Harold Gould as Alan and everyone’s teenage crush Chad Michael Murray as Jake there’s no news, but we’ve got our fingers crossed.
After Jamie – the major driving force behind the second film - approached Disney with a potential pitch, Freaky Friday 2 is set to be written by Elyse Hollander who has also written the script for Blonde Ambition, the potential Madonna biopic.
Since its release, Freaky Friday – which is actually a remake of the 1976 film of the same name which starred Jodie Foster – has become a cultural staple, even being spoofed in a Freaky Friday song by Lil Dicky.
There was also a film remake of Freaky Friday in 2018, but we don’t talk about that…
Since starring in Freaky Friday in 2003, Jamie Lee Curtis has gone on to star in Knives Out and of course Everything Everywhere All At Once for which she won an Academy Award. Lindsay Lohan, meanwhile, returned to the big screen with Falling For Christmas last year, and recently announced that she was expecting her first child with husband Bader Shammas.