Nearly 20 years after Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis played mother and daughter in 2003’s Freaky Friday, Disney is looking to reunite the actress for a sequel.
According to ET’s sources, Disney is working on a sequel, and both Curtis (fresh off her well-deserved Oscar win) and Lohan are in talks to return.
Furthermore, ET has learned that Elyse Hollander, a newcomer screenwriter best known for penning the Black List favorited screenplay Blonde Ambition, is working on a script.
Recently, Curtis and Lohan spoke with The New York Times to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their classic body-swap family comedy and opened up about their possible plans for working together in the future.
In fact, according to Curtis, she was one of the persons advocating a sequel project, based on comments she heard from fans and reports during a recent press tour.
“As I went around the world with Halloween Ends, people wanted to know if there was going to be another Freaky Friday. Something really touched a chord,” Curtis recalled. I felt like there was a movie to be created when I got back, so I contacted my Disney contacts.
In other words, “Jamie and I are both open to that,” as Lohan put it. That’s why we’re going to leave it up to the powers that be.
Lohan and Curtis also reflected on their time acting together and — perhaps more telling of what fans might see in a potential sequel — what they learned from the film about parenting.
“To have more patience,” said Lohan, who is expecting her first child with her husband, Bader Shammas. “You want to let them explore and live the way they need to live — with boundaries.”
As for Curtis — who is the mom of two adult children — she said the movie taught her to “suspend the judgment, open the ear, listen more.”
“Also, as a parent, we’re sizing up all the time: shoes, clothes, foods. It’s all future thought,” she continued. “My lesson from Freaky Friday was to be where your feet are.”