Hocus Pocus 2 dropped on Disney+ this weekend and all of us ghouls and goblins rejoiced!
The brand new movie reunited us with our favourite trio of spooky siblings, the Sanderson sisters (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker).
And launched us to some contemporary faces as nicely.
However whereas the film does deliver again the aforementioned trio and Doug Jones as all people’s favourite zombie, Billy Butcherson, the remainder of the solid from the unique Hocus Pocus are sadly absent from the story.
Nevertheless it wasn’t purported to be that method!
The movie’s director, Anne Fletcher, defined to Leisure Weekly that they tried to slot in all of our outdated favorites, like Max (Omri Katz), Allison (Vinessa Shaw), Dani (Thora Birch), and naturally the long-lasting bullies Jay and Ice (Tobias Jelinek and Larry Bagby).
“We needed to weave in the entire those that the followers liked,” Fletcher stated, “and while you sat again with all of the components and story, you are like, ‘how will we make this work?'”
In a current interview with EW, the three younger actors who play reverse the Sanderson Sisters (Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo, and Lilia Buckingham), talked about an early model of the script the place Thora Birch’s character Dani performed a significant position.
“She was going to be our schoolteacher,” Escobedo revealed. “I keep in mind speaking to Anne about it being a factor the place she was our trainer, and we went to her for assist.”
However sadly she, “was engaged on one thing else after they had been filming. In any other case I used to be positively going to be there on set with the women.”
Thora added that the primary movie “holds such a particular place in my coronary heart.”
Which, identical lady! And I feel this sequel was a really strong comply with as much as this spooky traditional, even when we missed a few of our authentic solid.
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