Netflix is bringing us a Christmas gift an entire year and a half early with the news that Lindsay Lohan will be returning to our screens in an untitled holiday rom-com for the franchise.
The flick, which will be directed by Janeen Damian, is set to start production this November and is scheduled for release in December 2022.
According to Variety, Lohan will be portraying, “A newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress [who] gets into a skiing accident, suffers from total amnesia, and finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.”
Which, TBH, doesn’t sound that far-fetched for our problematic queen.
Lohan first hinted at the new role in a Facebook post on May 21st which pictured her in the desert decked out in a green gown with a filming crew around her.
“The beginning of something…” She captioned the post.
While Lohan never seems to be too far away from her next headline in the press, it’s been a minute since she’s starred in a movie.
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Over the past decade, she’s only had a handful of roles in mostly unmemorable TV series. Her last acting role in a mainstream film was way back in 2013 for Scary Movie 5 – a movie that flopped miserably and received a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lohan rose to fame after her role as twin sisters Hallie Parker and Annie Jame in the 1998 movie, The Parent Trap. She arguably hit the height of her success as an actor when she starred as Cady in the award-winning movie Mean Girls, alongside Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried.
In 2017, Lohan was actively advocating for a sequel to the blockbuster. “Mean Girls 2 the movie—this is the importance. We need Rachel McAdams! We need the whole cast back”, she said to E! at the time.
“I’d love to do it again. We had so much fun making it. Mark Waters is such a great director, Tina Fey is an amazing writer, Paramount was great to work with—we all had a blast.”
“Mean Girls 2 would be great,” Lohan also told the Mail that same year. “It’s something I’ve always [been] interested in doing, it has such a great cult following, it would be wonderful to do something else.
“All of us should have kids, like a Housewives of… And all my kids are from Africa. We’ve adopted them or something funny.”
Unfortunately, there’s been no news about a Mean Girls sequel. However, we’re waiting with bated breath to watch Lohan as an engaged spoiled hotel heiress when the Netflix movie debuts next year.
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