It’s time to make midnight margaritas — once more.
“Sensible Magic 2” is within the works, and Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in negotiations to return as witchy sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, respectively, per Selection.
Warner Bros. introduced the information on TikTok, captioning a clip from the 1998 romance-fantasy basic: “It’s official… Sensible Magic 2 is coming!”
Bullock and Kidman are anticipated to provide, Varity mentioned, alongside Denise Di Novi, who produced the unique movie and who is understood for female-focused flicks, together with “Heathers” and “Little Girls.” Oscar-winning ‘A Lovely Thoughts’ author Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the unique movie’s script, will take cost of the screenplay.
The unique movie advised the story of Sally and Gillian, two sisters who’re descended from a centuries-long line of witches and who have been raised and skilled in sensible magic by their aunts after their dad and mom’ premature deaths. After by accident poisoning Gillian’s abusive boyfriend, the sisters reanimate his corpse and must struggle his evil spirit whereas additionally contending with a curse that any man who loves an Owens lady will die.
“The place ‘Bewitched’ had only one romantic sorceress making an attempt to include her energy whereas indulging strange human passions, this one has two — the ever-wholesome Sandra Bullock, an Elizabeth Montgomery surrogate if there might be one, and the ever seductive Nicole Kidman,” The Instances mentioned in its 1998 evaluation of the unique film.
“Bullock and Kidman present spunky star turns, and [Stockard] Channing and [Dianne] Wiest play the eccentric aunts with apt hamminess,” the evaluation continued. “It simply doesn’t add as much as something — or break down — to something particular. For good or dangerous, there’s hardly a memorable scene in it.”
That mentioned, the sequel announcement is welcome information for followers, a few of whom have been baited by a 2019 announcement that HBO was making a prequel collection that includes the sisters’ aunts, Franny and Jet, as younger witches. The challenge was axed this February, whilst Di Novi was teasing to one more return to small-town Massachusetts.
“I feel the followers are going to be thrilled,” she advised UPI in February, including that one thing was “within the works” from “the world of ‘Sensible Magic.’”
A lot of the challenge stays underneath wraps, and a launch date has but to be introduced. Within the meantime, “Sensible Magic” is streaming on Max.