Huge Lindsay Lohan Update on Freaky Friday Reboot Has Fans Divided
The revival of the cultish 2000s movie is officially confirmed by its main star.
Summary:
- Freaky Friday is a classic Disney 2003 movie, featuring mother and daughter magically switching bodies with each other.
- Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis will return to their roles in the movie’s reboot, which is already being developed by the studio.
Back in 2003, Freaky Friday by Mark Waters, became a huge Disney hit, featuring a story of a mother-daughter relationship narrated with a fantastic body-switching twist, and the best adaptation of Mary Rodgers’s 1972 eponymous novel.
Starring the award-winning Jamie Lee Curtis (Knives Out, Everything Everywhere All at Once) and the symbol of the 2000s, Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls), it has become classics of teen comedy and a great example of using the above-mentioned trope.
Since then, there have been discussions on the potential reboot of the movie, but in 2023 it was officially reported that the sequel was already in the works.
More than that, in a recent interview on Andy Cohen’s radio show, Lohan confirmed that she and Curtis will reprise their roles in Freaky Friday 2.
"We are both excited," the actress added.
Despite the fact that Lohan refrained from giving fans more details about the future reboot, her onscreen mother’s former speculations on the potential sequel’s plot can be recalled.
While being asked about her will to be in Freaky Friday 2, Curtis assured that she would like to embody “the old grandma who switches places” and a “helicopter parent in today’s world”, given their characters changing their parental roles.
Fans got divided after the recent confirmation of the reboot’s development. Apart from the toxic discussions regarding Lohan’s face and her health problems, some of the Internet users took this news with joy and greater anticipation, while others complained Freaky Friday revival would become another case of useless money-making sequel ideas.
“The industry is just trying to squeeze every f**king penny out of the concept of millennial nostalgia,” admits Redditor @Tina_ComeGetSomeHam in a heated discussion.
The quality of similar reboots often really suffers from the lack of well-written scripts and fresh additions to the original story, but in regard to Freaky Friday 2 it’s too early to draw conclusions, not even having the approximate date of its release.
Ahead of it, it’d be interesting to watch Lohan’s comeback to the big screen roles and, especially, her performance in another upcoming movie, which also uses the body-switching trope, Irish Wish, coming on Netflix on March 15.