EXCLUSIVE: Manny Jacinto (The Good Place) is the newest thesp in talks to affix Disney‘s long-awaited sequel, Freaky Friday 2, sources inform Deadline.
Disney declined remark.
Particulars as to Jacinto’s function are underneath wraps, as is the plot of the movie, which can shoot this summer time in Los Angeles. As beforehand reported, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are anticipated to return for his or her respective roles as body-swapping mom Tess and daughter Anna, with Julia Butters additionally in talks for a job.
Nisha Ganatra (Late Night time) will direct from a script by Jordan Weiss, with the unique movie’s Andrew Gunn to supply alongside Kristin Burr. Whether or not the movie might be for theaters or streaming isn’t but clear.
Launched in 2003 to a worldwide gross of over $160M, Freaky Friday revolves round Tess Coleman (Curtis), a single mom and uptight psychiatrist, and her rebellious teenage daughter, Anna (Lohan). Continually at odds with one another as a consequence of their differing views on life, they discover themselves magically swapping our bodies after a mysterious fortune cookie incident at a Chinese language restaurant. As Tess wakes up in Anna’s physique and vice versa, they’re pressured to reside one another’s lives for a day.
The movie is predicated on the same-name kids’s e-book by Mary Rodgers, which was beforehand tailored right into a 1976 movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as mom and daughter.
Finest recognized for starring reverse Kristen Bell and Ted Danson on Michael Schur’s hit NBC comedy The Good Place, which garnered 13 Emmy nominations throughout its 4 seasons, Jacinto has additionally been seen starring on the collection 9 Excellent Strangers and Model New Cherry Taste from Hulu and Netflix, respectively. Extra lately showing on Disney+’s buzzy Star Wars collection The Acolyte, the actor’s additionally been seen in Prime Gun: Maverick, in addition to options like I Need You Again and Unhealthy Instances on the El Royale.
A part of the forged of the indie dramedy Cora Bora, out at the moment, Jacinto will even quickly be seen in Nnamdi Asomugha’s drama The Knife, exec produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, which is coming off of its Tribeca premiere. The actor is represented by CAA, Principals Expertise Administration, Alchemy Leisure, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
