Come, we fly—to the Sanderson Sisters’ origin story in Hocus Pocus 2!
The sequel to the unique 1993 movie can be launched late subsequent month, practically 30 years after the witches’ preliminary on-screen efficiency. From what we have heard, the plot of Hocus Pocus 2 will lastly reveal the backstory of the three spooky sisters.
The film’s official synopsis had beforehand teased followers with some treats (no methods) however finally left them craving extra. (Facet observe: if you have not watched the Hocus Pocus 2 trailer but, please accomplish that instantly).
In response to a Disney press release: “It’s been 29 years since somebody lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the Seventeenth-century sisters, and they’re in search of revenge. Now it’s as much as three high-school college students to cease the ravenous witches from wreaking a brand new type of havoc on Salem earlier than daybreak on All Hallow’s Eve.“
Fortunately, Hocus Pocus 2 director Anne Fletcher (Dumplin’ and The Proposal) simply spilled much more of the much-awaited particulars in regards to the upcoming movie in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
In it, Fletcher set the scene for the movie—which can reportedly start with flashback to 1600s New England—the place youngster actors Taylor Henderson, Juju Journey Brener, and Nina Kitchen will painting youthful variations of Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy). Audiences may even meet a younger Billy Butcherson (performed by Doug Jones) and can lastly have the ability to unravel the ties between him and the Sanderson Sisters.
“The opening sequence of the film, we get some historical past of our witches and Billy. We get slightly kiss—pardon the pun—of the Billy facet of it and the world that they lived in and what occurred to the witches. I all the time missed that within the first one. Like, [why] are the witches the way in which they’re?” Fletcher stated.
The director continued: “I did have that query, and the script got here, and I cherished the opening 1600s. I pushed that slightly bit extra, as a result of I actually wished to level at, ever so barely…. the concept that the 1600s and the now are the identical. There is no distinction. I simply need to poke on the irony of it. However, within the pleasure of the movie you get to see the younger model of them and have a good time and perceive the what and why of what occurred to them.”
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An entire timeline of occasions is not all that is coming, both. Fletcher additionally informed reporters that the live-action comedy is inscribed with “some fantastic surprises within the mythology” of the sisters’ origin story.
Fletcher confirmed that the Sanderson Sisters aren’t born as witches, however as a substitute, they acquire their powers after being resurrected by three modern-day teenagers (performed by Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo, and Lilia Buckingham) residing in Salem, Massachusetts.
“[We] give every lady not solely the identical shade within the vein of our witches—Becca [Peak] being Winnie, Izzy [Escobedo] being Mary, and Cassie [Buckinham] being Sarah—however their hairstyles in a approach are comparable. It is a modern-day twist on it,” Fletcher revealed.
She concluded: “It is the intention of enjoying into that. On the finish of the day, the film is about sisterhood, it is about sticking collectively by thick and skinny, and being there for each other.”
Hocus Pocus 2 is ready to debut on Sept. 30, completely on Disney+.
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