Curtis made this revelation while speaking on the ABC talk show The View to promote her latest movie Halloween Ends. She stated, “I’ve already written to Disney — my friends at Disney, I’m in their new Haunted Mansion movie. I’m 64 years old today — not today, soon, in a month, or whatever. My point is I’m wide open, creatively I am wide open.” Curtis also had ideas about how the sequel should go and she expressed them on the show. She said, “Lindsay Lohan and me back in Freaky Friday. She just made a Christmas movie, I believe, and she got married. … It’s all good. Bring it! Let me be the grandma, let me be the old grandma who switches places, so then Lindsay gets to be the sexy grandma who’s still happy with Mark Harmon in all the ways you would be happy with Mark Harmon. I would like to see Lindsay be the hot grandma, and I would like to see me try to deal with toddlers today. I want to be a helicopter parent in today’s world.” Curtis, alongside Lohan, headlined the movie, which also starred Harmon, Harold Gould, and Chad Michael Murray. The movie was based on a Mary Rogers novel of the same name that was published in 1972. Also, it was Disney’s third adaptation of the novel. Disney’s original adaptation was the 1976 film of the same name which starred Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as the protagonists. In 1995, Disney made another adaptation. However, this was a television movie and it starred Shelly Long and Gaby Hoffman as the protagonists. In Freaky Friday, Curtis and Lohan star as a mother-daughter duo who dislike each other and thinks they have a better life. However, on Friday the 13th, the two have their bodies switched after reading magical Chinese fortune cookies. For a while, they are forced to walk in each other’s shoes and experience life as the other person sees it. In the end, they both learn that the other person doesn’t have it easy. They reconcile and treat each other better going forward. Freaky Friday was well received by fans and critics alike. It performed well at the box office with earnings of over $160 million against a budget of $26 million. Also, Curtis received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her performance in the movie. In other Disney news, the Mouse House just revealed disappointing information after the delay of several of its upcoming films, including Avengers: Secret Wars. The news comes following the production delays faced by Blade.
