We’re less than three weeks out from the return of the Sanderson sisters and we finally, from D23, have the full trailer – and new poster – for Hocus Pocus 2 and it’s, well, it’s not bad.
Some 30 years later, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are back as the witches who were seemingly killed at the end of the original movie, once again out to claim Salem and Halloween for themselves and, it has to be said, the passage of time is barely noticeable in the three ladies.
The original is a big seasonal hit here at FTN HQ with young and old watching it every Halloween and usually managing to find somewhere playing it on the big screen but sadly, no matter how good this sequel turn out, we’re not going to be seeing it on the big screen, well, ever.
That said, I am looking forward to sitting down in a few weeks with the gang and doing a Sanderson double-bill… I just hope this second installment can hold up.
This Halloween Season, some legends never die. Hocus Pocus 2, an Original movie event, streaming September 30 on Disney Plus.
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy reunite for the highly anticipated Disney+ Original Movie “Hocus Pocus 2.” The live-action, long-awaited sequel to the perennial Halloween classic, which brings back the delightfully wicked Sanderson sisters for more comedic mayhem, will debut on Disney+ on September 30.
It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow’s Eve. “Hocus Pocus 2” also stars Doug Jones (“The Shape of Water”), Whitney Peak (“Gossip Girl”), Lilia Buckingham (“Dirt”), Belisa Escobedo (“American Horror Stories”), Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso”), Tony Hale (“Veep”), Sam Richardson (“The Tomorrow War,” “Good Boys”), Juju Brener (“Vanquish”), Froy Gutierrez (“Teen Wolf”), Taylor Paige Henderson and Nina Kitchen. The film is directed by Anne Fletcher (“Dumplin,’” “The Proposal”), written by Jen D’Angelo (“Happy Together,” “Workaholics”) and produced by Lynn Harris (“King Richard,” “The Shallows”), with Adam Shankman (“Disenchanted,” “Hairspray”), Ralph Winter (“Hocus Pocus,” “X-Men” franchise) and David Kirschner (“Hocus Pocus,” “Chucky”) serving as executive producers.
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