‘Freakier Friday’ Trailer: Jamie Lee Curtis And Lindsay Lohan Get Freaky Again This Summer

Disney isn’t just obsessed with remaking their animated classics as live-action features, they also can’t help giving long-suffering fans sequels to their favorite childhood comedies. So you get Hocus Pocus 2 a couple of years ago, and now there’s Freakier Friday. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back and reprising their roles from the hit 2003 body-swapping comedy, Freaky Friday.

Directed by Nisha Ganatra (Chutney PopcornThe High Note), Freakier Friday finds Curtis and Lohan returning as Tess and Anna Coleman. Same as last time, they’re going to experience a body swapping identity crisis, but two decades later with very different responsibilities it’s going to make the situation a lot more complicated.

A lot has changed in 22 years. Curtis is now an Oscar winner, Lohan has been a Hollywood cautionary tale and seemingly made a positive turnaround and career comeback.

Chad Michael Murray returns as Jake, Anna’s former boyfriend from the original film. Manny Jacinto (The Good PlaceThe Acolyte) plays Anna’s current guy. Also in the cast are Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Ryan Malgarini, Lucille Soong, Rosalind Chao, Jordan E. Cooper, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Vanessa Bayer, and Dakota Lohan.

SYNOPSIS: In the film, Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman. The story picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice.

Freakier Friday opens in theaters on August 8th when it’ll face off against Zach Cregger’s anticipated horror, Weapons. Talk about counterprogramming.