Freakier Friday has confirmed that the beloved body-swapping movie from 2003 has legs for future installments, however figuring out the place the franchise might go subsequent requires some creativity. Although there have been many Freaky Friday movies, solely the 2003 basic has been common sufficient to warrant a sequel, with Freakier Friday living up to lofty expectations.
Freakier Friday upped the ante of mom and daughter switching lives by having double the body-swapping, with Lindsay Lohan’s Anna and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Tess switching our bodies with Anna’s daughter and soon-to-be stepdaughter, Harper and Lily.
Whereas the whole lot returns to regular by Freakier Friday‘s ending, there’s nonetheless room for the franchise to proceed on if it proves to be financially profitable for Disney. If a 3rd film may even be conceived, it may need to be prepared to take pleasure in some actually absurd concepts.
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A Six-Method Swap Turns into Freakiest Friday
As a part of the sequel’s launch, director Nisha Ganatra revealed one possible direction Freaky Friday 3 might go in an unique interview with Display Rant. Once we requested her what Freakiest Friday would appear to be, she teased {that a} six-way physique swap might be in retailer by including Manny Jacinto and Chad Michael Murray’s Eric and Jake to the combo.
Ganatra’s reply should not be handled because the official idea of the sequel, nevertheless it does present a basis for what she might do with one other film. Having Eric and Jake swap locations would definitely present for some hilarious moments, particularly if Tess, Anna, Harper, and Lily additionally swap our bodies in some style.
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Summer time Change
It is a little-known undeniable fact that the unique Freaky Friday from 1976 relies on a youngsters’s novel of the identical title, written by Mary Rodgers. There are lots of variations between the ebook and the 2003 film, however the supply materials truly did have its personal obscure sequel launched by Rodgers in 1982, titled Summer time Change.
Right here, the brother and father of the unique younger protagonist are given their very own body-swapping mishap, stranding the daddy in summer season camp whereas the younger lad tries to navigate life as a hot-shot Hollywood producer. A tame concept for the following Freaky Friday installment might be to place a male spin on the time-honored story, maybe utilizing Ryan and Eric.
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Freaky Friday The thirteenth
Although not technically a part of the Freaky Friday franchise, the 2020 Vince Vaughn horror comedy Freaky pays clear tribute to it. On this movie, a teen lady inadvertently swaps our bodies with a basic silent slasher villain, performed by Vaughn himself. There is not any motive to not develop the Freaky Friday timeline by canonizing this religious spin-off.
However there’s one other beloved franchise centering on the final day of the work week that would have some surprising synergy with the Freaky Friday collection on account of the truth that, within the first film, the Friday the ladies swap our bodies falls on the thirteenth. Thusly, a three-way crossover between Freaky Friday, Freaky, and Friday the thirteenth is perhaps simply loopy sufficient to work.
The plot might see Tess or Anna swapping our bodies with Jason himself, looking for out assist from the one different one that has survived such a state of affairs, Kathryn Newton’s Millie. Although a licensing nightmare on paper, getting into the Friday the 13th films into the fray would make for a tremendous escalation of stakes.
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A Billion For Boris
Wanting again as soon as once more on the authentic Freaky Friday novel, Mary Rodgers had extra concepts past merely extending the format of switching minds and our bodies to the male members of her Andrews household. Enter the third ebook within the unfastened collection, A Billion for Boris, named after the unique feminine protagonist’s childhood buddy.
On this sequel, Annabel Andrews and Boris discover a magical TV that is able to seeing into the longer term. The pair use the magical system to get wealthy shortly, making a killing betting on horse races. It might seem to be a complete non-sequitur, however possibly a very contemporary set of supernatural circumstances are wanted to maintain the Freaky Friday movies contemporary.
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Swapping Our bodies With An Animal
Maybe there are not any people the forged of Freakier Friday might swap to that might put a significant new spin on the components, with no mixture of thoughts and physique swaps making an enormous distinction. Fortunately, there’s one other course solely that the collection might look to in hopes of placing a more energizing spin on the idea.
Throwing Tess or Anna’s thoughts into the physique of a pet or perhaps a wild animal is perhaps a hilariously enjoyable approach to additional take a look at the power of their mother-daughter relationship. Sadly, the Coleman household does not appear to have a canine or different appropriate candidate, however the third Freaky Friday might get inventive with their new animal actor.
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Physique Swapping With A Stranger
The entire conceit round Freaky Friday’s physique swapping is the objective of strengthening the connection between mom and daughter by giving one another a literal new perspective. However that very same bonding train might play out very otherwise with the straightforward change of creating a complete unusual the recipient of Tess, Anna, Lily, or Harper’s physique.
Discovering a approach to work along with a member of the family to undo the state of affairs is already tough sufficient, however including within the additional boundary of whole unfamiliarity might add an entire new layer of problem to the ordeal. It will be superb to see two utterly unrelated characters study one another’s lives by experiencing them with no background information in real-time.
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A World-Large Physique Swap
In lots of iterations of Freaky Friday, the oncoming physique swap is heralded by a mysterious earthquake that may seemingly solely be felt by these the change will probably be affecting. A technique a 3rd film might actually flip up the thrill could be to see the entire world really feel this earthquake directly, resulting in mass chaos.
A film that describes the complete planet swapping our bodies with another person would virtually be apocalyptic in scope, however it might definitely be an attention-grabbing logline to see Disney deal with. Whereas it might simply transform the darkest Disney movie ever made, the entire world experiencing one actually Freaky Friday would possibly simply be well worth the threat.
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Freaky Monday
Whereas the Freaky Friday books solely have two direct sequels, authentic creator Mary Rodgers did lend her hand in writing a religious successor with an analogous title, Freaky Monday. Yet one more body-swapping story, this story follows a Kind A teen lady named Hadley as she finds herself swapped together with her eccentric, easygoing trainer, Ms. Pitt.
A part of what made the dynamic of the 2003 Freaky Friday work so properly is the distinction between the rebellious, punk-rock teen daughter and her uptight, orderly mother. Reversing the roles between the 2 ages might make for an attention-grabbing exploration of a generational divide that hasn’t actually been described in a mainline film earlier than.
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Each Freaky Friday Film Protagonist Switches
The 2003 film is way from the one movie loosely adapting the occasions of Freaky Friday. There have been movies of the identical title launched with the identical supernatural story of mother-daughter bonding in 1976, 1995, and 2018, to various levels of success. Maybe forwarding the franchise means combining all of them right into a single story.
Whereas the 2018 and 1995 made-for-TV movies would not have any particularly iconic actors basic audiences would acknowledge, making Freaky Friday 3 right into a Jodie Foster feature to homage the 1976 authentic could be a tremendous selection. Maybe she, Lindsay Lohan, and Jamie Lee Curtis might interact in a messy three-way physique swap that lasts for longer than ordinary.
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Put up-Swap Dying Throws A Horrifying Wrench Into The Motion
If there’s one factor Freaky definitively proved, it is that the idea behind Freaky Friday has quite a lot of horrifying potential for a very good horror film. A great way to lean into this factor of the collection extra could be to reply the age-old query of what occurs when one individual dies whereas in the midst of a basic physique swap.
It might be that doing so would ship the physique’s controlling thoughts again into their authentic physique, forcing them to cohabitate with the technically deceased. Higher but, they might be caught as a strolling corpse, hoping to seek out a way again into their very own residing physique regardless of the brand new proprietor’s determined makes an attempt to maintain it for themselves.
There are all kinds of horrific avenues a 3rd film might take with this pitch, even when it is perhaps a very good deal extra macabre than the kind of family-friendly territory the collection is used to. In any case, it is the type of dramatic departure the following Freakier Friday film wants to remain related.
Freakier Friday
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- Launch Date
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August 7, 2025
- Director
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Nisha Ganatra
- Writers
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Mary Rodgers, Jordan Weiss
- Prequel(s)
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Freaky Friday
