On June 5th, it was revealed that the Japanese title of Disney's latest live-action movie "Freakier Friday," starring American actor and singer Lindsay Rohan, will be "Shuffle Friday," and that it will be released on Friday, September 5th. A Teaser trailer and a Japanese version teaser poster have also been released.
The director is Nisha Ganatra, who also directed the comedy film "Late Night: My Brilliant Boss" (2019). Single mother Anna leads a busy but fulfilling life with the support of her mother Tess. One day, her daughter, now a high school student, gets into a big fight with a classmate during class and is called to school. There, Anna meets the father of the girl she fought with and falls in love with him. The two decide to get married, but the relationship between the two daughters remains bad, and they are unable to accept their new family member. Meanwhile, a fortune teller appears at the engagement party and casts a spell, causing Anna and her biological daughter (mother and daughter), and her grandmother Tess and her stepdaughter (grandmother and stepgrandson) to switch bodies on the following Friday morning. The two daughters, thinking that this is a great opportunity to stop the marriage, come up with a plan to tear their parents apart...
Rohan, who rose to prominence as a teen idol in the United States with her roles in "The Fortune Cookie" (2003) and "Mean Girls" (2004), is now 38 years old. In this film, she plays a single mother who finds herself in a complicated situation when she is about to remarry and ends up being swapped with her high school-aged daughter. Jamie Lee Curtis, who is making great strides in her 60s, including winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Everything, Everywhere All at Once" (2023), plays Tess, who is swapped with her high school-aged granddaughter.
The Teaser trailer shows the four girls in a state of chaos on a Friday morning after they've just switched bodies. "It's impossible to turn into a grandma! I can't go to school with this face!" they scream and faint, but they try to work together to "become each other so no one notices"... The grandmother dressed in all pink is clearly acting suspiciously, the mom spews bitter (?) smoothies at work, and even dancing, surfing, jumping in a car... and finally a concert in a hall! The four girls are depicted in a comical way, moving around energetically. The Japanese teaser poster mainly focuses on the two co-stars.
