Whitney Peak, Froy Gutierrez and Lilia Buckingham are among the new cast for the upcoming Hocus Pocus 2!
The long-awaited Disney sequel will see the return of Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy in their iconic roles of the Sanderson Sisters.
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The wait may almost be over!
Disney+ is in early stages for a sequel to cult classic Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Variety reports.
Workaholics writer and co-producer Jen D’Angelo is set to write the script for the sequel.
Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker, premiered in 1993 and airs all October long every year on Freeform.
None of the original stars are attached to the sequel yet, but Disney hopes they can be involved in some way.
Just last year, Hocus Pocus celebrated it’s 25 year anniversary with a special on Freeform!
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We are living for Vanessa Hudgens amazing look at the Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash, which was taped on Tuesday (October 2) in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
The 29-year-old actress and singer hosted the event with Jordan Fisher and we just can’t wait to watch the special, airing on October 20th on Freeform!
The Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash will feature musical performances by Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson and Jordin Sparks, plus PRETTYMUCH, and Junior New System.
There was also a Hocus Pocus themed costume contest and the special will also include exclusive interviews with original cast and crew members Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Kenny Ortega, Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw, Thora Birch, Amanda Shepherd, Doug Jones, Larry Bagby, Jason Marsden, Tobias Jelinek, and more.
Stay tuned for all the videos from the night – coming soon!
Freeform announced earlier this year that they were changing their annual “13 Nights of Halloween” into 31 Nights of Halloween, and if that wasn’t good enough news, there’s more!
All your fave Halloween themed movies will be playing - Monsters, Inc., The Addams Family, Hotel Transylvania, Jurassic Park, Maleficent – and even Hocus Pocus.
But Hocus Pocus isn’t just airing once or twice – but nearly every single night! – and that’s music to our ears!
31 Nights of Halloween kicks off on Monday, October 1st, starting at 5PM ET/PT.
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Hocus Pocus is one of those movies you HAVE to watch around Halloween time, and if you don’t, then what are you actually watching?
The flick, starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, has become a cult classic — and before you watch it tonight on Freeform (don’t lie, we know you are), we’ve got a few secrets to spill about the flick.
Director Kenny Ortega spoke with EW about how Leonardo DiCaprio once auditioned for Max, and how the dust flying out of Billy Butcherson’s mouth was actually dust.
He also shared that at first, Disney didn’t like how Bette, Sarah and Kathy looked as the Sanderson sisters.
“The ladies came in with idea for their characters,” Kenny says. “They came in with ideas for makeup and hair. Bette [Midler] threw on those buck teeth and had that crazy wild hairstyle and disappeared as we knew her. When Disney looked at the makeup test and the hair test, they came back and said, ‘You need to pull back on this, there’s no Bette Midler there.’”
He adds, “Then Kathy [Najimy] came in with the sort of that bit of paralysis and Disney at first was really concerned that we had gone too far and that we were losing the women in the characterizations and makeup. But they stood strong. We managed to gain the support of the company and went forward.”
We wonder what the Sanderson sisters were going to look like if Disney had their way!
Another secret from the set? Bette, Sarah and Kathy got stuck on their brooms!
“One of the first times that we went up to shoot with the girls on the vacuum cleaner and the brooms – their first take-off – we had some computer glitches and they were all stuck up in the air in these strange positions,” Kenny remembers.
“The girls were cackling [at first]. Then they were like, ‘Okay it’s not funny anymore, get us down from here.’”
Hocus Pocus airs TONIGHT @ 6:20PM ET/PT on Freeform.
