"Freaky Friday" Sequel in Works

A sequel to the 2003 hit body-swap comedy “Freaky Friday” is finally in the works at Disney. 

Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are expected to reprise their roles as mother-daughter duo Anna and Tess Coleman. 

Elyse Hollander, whose work has been featured on the Black List, is penning the script. 

Based on Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel of the same name, the story was adapted for the screen twice before the 2003 film — in 1976 starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and in 1995 with Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman. But the Lohan-Curtis version found the most success, scoring over $160 million at the box office.

Curtis has been teasing the possibility of a Freaky Friday follow-up for quite some time now.

In November 2022, the actress told PEOPLE that she wanted to work with Lohan, 36, again, and that there was "a lot of good talk going on".

"There would be nothing I would love more, honestly, than to be able to work with her again, share our time again, and now be able to share it at this age with both of us 20 years older, or whatever we are," Curtis said at the time.

In February 2023, Curtis shared a photo of her and Lohan on Instagram with the caption, “It’s Friday. I’m just sayin! Freaky fingers crossed!”.

Lohan commented on the post with emojis of crossed fingers, a smiley face with heart eyes and two hands up.

“It’s going to happen. Without saying there’s anything officially happening, I’m looking at you in this moment and saying, ‘Of course it’s going to happen.’ It’s going to happen," Curtis elaborated in an interview with Variety at the Producers Guild Awards on February 26. 

The news was revealed in a New York Times interview with Lohan and Curtis celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 2003 movie.

“As I went around the world with ‘Halloween Ends,’ people wanted to know if there was going to be another ‘Freaky Friday,'” Curtis told the New York Times. 

“Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.'”

Lohan added, “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be. We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.”