Lindsay Lohan is returning to her Disney roots—joining talks to team up with Jamie Lee Curtis once again for a highly-anticipated sequel to the iconic 2003 body-swap classic, Freaky Friday.
, Curtis is supposedly responsible for bringing the idea up, telling the publication that as she was promoting horror filmFreaky Friday
.” Curtis added: “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.’” Curtis then sparked rumors in February after posting a photo of her and Lohan on Instagram with the caption, “It’s Friday. I’m just sayin! Freaky fingers crossed!”on Feb. 26. “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.”
Lohan, meanwhile, who was a budding, 16-year-old singer and movie star at the time the original film was made, is seeing her own career resurgence after a successful picture deal with Netflix, including the hit release of“Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be,” Lohan toldprior to the announcement. “We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.
Freaky Friday received rave reviews at the time, and even scored some Oscars buzz for Curtis, who would wait another 20 years until scoring a win for 2022’s“I’ve been in genre movies for a long time, but the only time in my life where someone mentioned an Oscar was in
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