It’s time to make midnight margaritas — once again.
“Practical Magic 2” is in the is effective, and Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in negotiations to return as witchy sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, respectively, per Selection.
Warner Bros. announced the information on TikTok, captioning a clip from the 1998 romance-fantasy common: “It’s official… Sensible Magic 2 is coming!”
Bullock and Kidman are expected to develop, Varity explained, alongside Denise Di Novi, who manufactured the initial film and who is regarded for female-concentrated flicks, which includes “Heathers” and “Little Women.” Oscar-successful ‘A Wonderful Mind’ author Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the initial film’s script, will acquire charge of the screenplay.
The primary film informed the tale of Sally and Gillian, two sisters who are descended from a centuries-very long line of witches and who ended up raised and experienced in sensible magic by their aunts immediately after their parents’ untimely deaths. After accidentally poisoning Gillian’s abusive boyfriend, the sisters reanimate his corpse and have to fight his evil spirit whilst also contending with a curse that any guy who enjoys an Owens girl will die.
“Where ‘Bewitched’ experienced just one passionate sorceress striving to comprise her energy although indulging ordinary human passions, this just one has two — the ever-wholesome Sandra Bullock, an Elizabeth Montgomery surrogate if there could be 1, and the ever seductive Nicole Kidman,” The Moments explained in its 1998 review of the authentic film.
“Bullock and Kidman offer spunky star turns, and [Stockard] Channing and [Dianne] Wiest enjoy the eccentric aunts with apt hamminess,” the evaluate ongoing. “It just does not increase up to just about anything — or split down — to something exclusive. For excellent or poor, there’s hardly a unforgettable scene in it.”
That claimed, the sequel announcement is welcome information for fans, some of whom have been baited by a 2019 announcement that HBO was creating a prequel sequence that includes the sisters’ aunts, Franny and Jet, as younger witches. The job was axed this February, even as Di Novi was teasing to nevertheless one more return to modest-town Massachusetts.
“I imagine the admirers are heading to be thrilled,” she advised UPI in February, including that some thing was “in the works” from “the earth of ‘Practical Magic.’”
A great deal of the task stays less than wraps, and a release day has yet to be announced. In the meantime, “Practical Magic” is streaming on Max.
