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For nearly as long as there have been movies, there has been an endless fascination among filmgoers for the genre known as the ‘body-swap’ story. The premise is generally the same across this well-known niche: Take two seemingly disparate individuals with absolutely nothing in common (extra points given for characters related to one another), switch one persona with the other via some sort of contrived mind experiment and POOF! Instant body-switch movie. The annals of filmdom are all but littered with this tried-and-true staple: Vice-Versa, Like Father Like Son, 13 Going On 30, Prelude to a Kiss and – setting the time machine waaaaay back – the 1940 flick Turnabout. My favorite? Blushingly, I admit to being a card-carrying aficionado of the 1989 Two Corey’s opus Dream a Little Dream. In this little nugget of cinematic gold The Feld-Dog (i.e. living legend Corey Feldman) does the ol’ switcheroo with no less of a master thespian than Jason Robards. Oh, and there’s a neat scene-stealing turn by the late Corey Haim, to boot.
In more recent times, a veritable cottage industry has grown up around a remake of one of the classic films in the body-swap genre, 1976s Freaky Friday which co-starred a young Jodie Foster. The remake – which showcased Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in tour-de-force performances – took hold of the cultural zeitgeist and held on for dear life, sporting a shelf life that would make most other films envious. For those of you that loved this 2003 remake with heart, be of good cheer: An official sequel is very much en route from Disney even as you read these deathless words…
Those rascally Chances Are fanatics over at The Hollywood Reporter shouted the news of an impending sequel to the Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan iteration of Freaky Friday, making an entire contingent of the world’s population very happy indeed. Both Lohan and newly minted Oscar-winner Curtis are expected to reprise their original roles of a mother and daughter that experience one another’s difficult lives courtesy of a mysterious body swap (is there ever any other kind?). Though still in the early stages, wordsmith Elyse Hollander will be writing the script for this sequel just as soon as the ongoing writer’s strike is settled.
Word of a sequel has been gaining traction in recent years, with Curtis fielding questions about a Freaky Friday sequel while stumping for Halloween Ends. “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,’ explained the Trading Places star less than a year back.
We’ll keep our antennae very much open for any and all new tidbits about the eagerly awaited sequel for Freaky Friday; stay tuned!
