The upcoming Freaky Friday movie will feature a four-way body swap between family members, the trailer has revealed.
Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis and Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan are returning as mother and daughter characters for Freakier Friday, set decades after the 2003 hit.
That film saw Tess Coleman (Curtis) and musician Anna (Lohan) trade places after reading fortune cookies at a Chinese restaurant.
The sequel sees Tess, Anna, Anna’s daughter Harper (Julia Butters), and Anna’s soon-to-be stepdaughter Lily Davies (Sophia Hammons) all waking up in each other’s bodies.
In the trailer, Tess and Anna are told they “learned a lesson, a lesson that might serve you again” by a fortune teller, played by Saturday Night Live star Vanessa Bayer.
It then appears to show the four female characters waking up to discover that Anna and Harper have swapped places, along with Lily and Tess.
A teaser montage is then shown of them acting as each other at concerts, playing sports, and when Anna’s former love interest Jake (Chad Michael Murray) shows up on a motorcycle. The four then come up with a plan to switch back.
One Tree Hill‘s Murray and NCIS star Mark Harmon are reprising their roles in the sequel, while The Good Place and The Acolyte star Manny Jacinto has joined the cast as Lily’s father, Eric Davies.
The 2003 film was based on the 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers, which was previously turned into a 1976 movie starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.
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It is one of the many movies including Herbie Fully Loaded and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen that turned Lohan into a household name.
She later took a partial step back following years of tabloid attention.
Her return to the screen has included a rom-com deal with Netflix that featured 2022’s Falling for Christmas, this year’s Irish Wish, and the festive film Our Little Secret.
Lohan, a child star, rose to fame in a 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, in which she played estranged twin sisters.
Curtis, who won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for the science fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once, is also known for the slasher film Halloween and its sequels, the drama My Girl, and the action movie True Lies.
Freakier Friday will be released on 8 August.
Source: Press Association
