Lindsay Lohan to make acting comeback with Netflix s Christmas romantic comedy ANI | Updated: May 25, 2021 10:50 IST
Washington [US], May 25 (ANI): American actor and TV personality Lindsay Lohan, who has largely foregone acting in recent years, will soon be starring in an upcoming yet-to-be-titled Netflix holiday rom-com.
According to Variety, Lohan will play a newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress , who gets amnesia after a skiing accident and finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas. The rest of the cast has not been announced yet.
The streamer has made a robust business out of Christmas fare, and its original movies such as Jingle Jangle , A Christmas Prince , The Christmas Chronicles and The Princess Switch , which was inspired by Lohan s The Parent Trap , have become instant and repeatable holiday classics.
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Lindsay Lohan to make comeback in Netflix s Christmas romantic comedy
Actress Lindsay Lohan is all set to make her acting comeback with a Christmas romantic comedy, about an heiress who has a skiing accident and suffers from amnesia. Lohan s role has been described as a newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress , reports contactmusic.com. The film will release on Netflix. Makers are yet to announce the rest of the cast. Janeen Damian will direct the movie from the script he co-wrote with Michael Damian, Jeff Bonnett and Ron Oliver. MPCA s Brad Krevoy and Riviera Films Michael Damian are producing. Amanda Phillips and Eric Jarboe are serving as executive producers.
Overboard, starring
Goldie Hawn as a wealthy woman who wades through sudden memory loss with the help of an everyman played by her real-life partner,
Kurt Russell. Lohan herself is no stranger to a high concept premise: The 34-year-old got her start in Hollywood starring in remakes of
The Parent Trap and
Freaky Friday, which both involve highly unlikely switcheroos.
After a career working with directors including Robert Altman and Garry Marshall, Lohan has mostly retreated from mainstream Hollywood in recent years. She relocated to Dubai and Europe, making sporadic appearances as Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetimeâs
Liz and Dick and as a co-star in
he is yet to visit, asked
: “So, Dubai is a place and that is in where?” To which Lohan replied, with a laugh: “The Middle East. It’s a city built on desert.
“I first came here in 2008 when they just finished building the Atlantis [The Palm] hotel, and there was none of this here that there is now,” she said. “There was no DIFC, Downtown, The Dubai Mall … anything that there is now.”
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she does, and had done for six years, at the time.
“I live here, I have been here for about six years. But I go to New York a lot to see my family … and I was in London before this,” she said. “I haven’t been to LA in over 10 years.
Lindsay Lohan has signed up to star in a new Netflix Christmas movie.
The Mean Girls actress has stayed largely out of the limelight since after she left Hollywood to live in Dubai but now is ready to return to movies in the yet-to-be-titled romantic comedy, according to Variety.
In the new flick for the streaming giant, Lohan will play a newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress who gets amnesia after a skiing accident. She then finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.
Further additions to the cast have not yet been announced.