Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will return for Practical Magic 2.
Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing returning for Practical Magic 2
The pair – who played the eccentric aunts of Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman’s characters in the original 1998 movie – are set to reprise their roles in the upcoming sequel, according to Variety.
Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, Solly McLeod, Joey King and Lee Pace will also co-star.
Meanwhile, producer Denise Di Novi previously promised that fans will be “very pleased” with the sequel.
Kidman and Bullock will reprise their roles as witches the Owens sisters and Di Novi explained the movie will draw heavily from the source material – Alice Hoffman’s 2021 novel The Book of Magic.
She told Entertainment Weekly: “I think (fans are) going to be very pleased. We’re going to be very faithful. We’re [aware of] how important those characters and that movie are to so many people. We’re not going to reinvent the wheel.
“We’re going to draw from Alice Hoffman’s books, as the first movie did, and we’re going to be true to the chronology of how many years later it is.”
Di Novi explained how the crew will “be respectful to the characters, story, and locations” from the original picture.
She said: “It’s going to be in 2025, but I’m not exactly sure when. We’re just beginning the script, and Akiva Goldsman, who worked on the original and 10 million other things since then, is writing the script.”
Nicole confirmed that she and Sandra would be appearing in the sequel just days after the project was announced by Warner Bros.
She told People magazine: “Yes I will be in it. And Sandy will be in it. And that’s that.
“There’s a lot more to tell which is why we go, ‘OK, this is kind of interesting now to be able to do this.’ (We) found a way in.”