The Sanderson Sisters are back!
On Tuesday, Disney released its first teaser trailer forHocus Pocus 2— the highly anticipated sequel to the 1993 comedy that drops on the company’s streaming platform, Disney+, on Sept. 30.
StarsBette Midler, 76,Sarah Jessica Parker, 57, andKathy Najimy, 65, all return for the film, reprising their iconic role as the trio of witches hungry to suck the souls out of the children of Salem, Massachusetts to achieve their eternal youth.
“Lock up your children,” Midler’s character Winifred shouts in the teaser, after the Black Flame Candle is once again lit, resurrecting her and her sisters. “Yes, Salem, we’re back!”
“Always,” Midler says, implying that another musical performance — a la “I Put a Spell on You” from the original movie — will be on the way.
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Teaser footage fromHocus Pocus2wasfirst shown at the company’s upfronts presentation back in May.
As seen in that clip,Gossip Girl’s Whitney Peak andAmerican Horror Stories' Belissa Escobedo are the two teens who bring the Sanderson Sisters back to life. Lilia Buckingham (Dirt) plays the third teen who teams with Peak and Escobedo’s characters to battle the Sanderson Sisters.
Doug Jones (The Shape of Water), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), and Froylan Gutierrez (Teen Wolf) will also appear in the movie, according to the release.
“It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters, and they are looking for revenge,” the film’s official description reads. “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.”
Kathy Najimy, Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker inHocus Pocus 2(2022).Matt Kennedy/Courtesy of Disney Enterprises, Inc.
ProducerAdam Shankmanconfirmed in a January Instagram post that filming on the sequel had wrapped, writing of the release, “Coming to you#halloween#2022on@disneyplus.”
The movie will pick up almost 30 years after Max (Omri Katz) lit the Black Flame Candle in the 1993 film version and accidentally resurrected three witches on the hunt to steal children. It also starredVinessa ShawandThora Birch.
“We’re back, witches.” it says on the sequel’s poster.
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According to a production source who spoke to PEOPLE in February, it was as ifno time had passed for the returning castwhile filming the sequel.
“Bette’s energy is the same as when she starred in the original. If anything, she raises the stakes,” the insider told PEOPLE.
The source added that the three stars “all feel like it’s about time [the sequel] happens and they wish they had done it sooner. The chemistry between the cast was still there.”
“Hocus Pocusfans will not be disappointed,” the insider said. “All of their favorite characters from the first movie return and then some.”
Hocus Pocus 2is streaming Sept. 30 on Disney+.
source: people.com
