I put a spell on you! Practically three many years after Hocus Pocus premiered in 1993, followers proceed to look at the Halloween traditional on repeat — and may’t await extra.
Within the authentic film, Max (Omri Katz) lights the black flame candle, bringing Winnifred Sanderson (Bette Midler) and her sisters, Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mary (Kathy Najimy), again to life. Fortunately, Max is profitable in defeating the Sanderson sisters on their mission to suck the lives out of all the youngsters in Salem in hopes of changing into youthful and residing eternally.
His plan is simply profitable, nonetheless, because of the assistance of his sister, Dani (Thora Birch), new flame Allison (Vinessa Shaw) and cat Thackery Binx (voiced by Jason Marsden). The Halloween favourite additionally starred Sean Murray because the human Thackery and Doug Jones as zombie Billy Butcherson.
Over time, the solid has teased a attainable second movie, with Midler solely telling Us Weekly in October 2019, “I heard it’s going to be fabulous.” The Seashores star then joked, “I hope they rent me as a result of I wish to fly once more within the worst method.”
Parker defined in Could 2020 that she and fellow costars Midler and Najimy had been “hospitable to the thought” of reprising their witch roles sooner or later.
“I feel for a very long time, folks had been speaking about it as if folks had been shifting ahead with it in an actual method however we had been unaware of it,” the Intercourse and the Metropolis actress instructed Bruce Bozz on Sirius XM’s Quarantined with Bruce on the time. “I feel now we’ve gotten to the purpose the place all of us, like, agreed publicly to the precise folks, [saying], ‘Sure! That may be a really, very enjoyable concept.’ So, we’ll see. We’ll see what the long run holds.”
After the actresses reunited in October 2020 in help of the New York Restoration Venture, followers had been much more decided to get a brand new film from the women. In Could 2021, Disney+ introduced the official return of the Sanderson sisters for the upcoming movie, Hocus Pocus 2.
“Sistaaaahs! It’s been 300 years… However we’re BACK! 🧹 #HocusPocus2 arrives Fall 2022 on @DisneyPlus,” Midler confirmed by way of Instagram on the time.
5 months later, Shaw revealed the place she thinks her character Allison and love curiosity Max can be now, hinting that they may come again for the sequel.
“I really feel like she and Max are nonetheless collectively, however I feel Allison’s from Salem and he at all times desires to be in California,” she instructed Leisure Tonight in October 2021. “I feel they did some kind of compromise and possibly she’s in Salem when the witches come again, you already know, visiting her mother or one thing.”
Scroll right down to see what we all know in regards to the second Hocus Pocus movie:
