Hocus Pocus 2 Conjures Up Some New Cast Members

The unique Hocus Pocus is a fixture for many households on Halloween season, and Disney’s been promising a sequel for years. In lieu of an precise trailer for this Halloween, Disney revealed a brand new slate of characters who’ll be becoming a member of the Sanderson sisters’ (once more performed by Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimi, and Better Midler) second journey.

Joining to the forged of Hocus Pocus 2 can be Hollywood’s resident monster man Doug Jones, Veep alums Tony Hale and Sam Richardson (additionally of the fairly good Werewolves Within!), and Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham. Jones, chances are you’ll keep in mind, performed the zombie Billy Butcherson, who went on to assist the youngsters of Salem defeat the Sanderson sisters and his ex, Winnie (Midler).

They’ll be joined by Whitney Peak, Lilia Buckingham, Belissa Escobedo, Juju Brener, Froy Gutierrez, Taylor Henderson, and Nina Kitchen. The youthful actors you’ve doubtless seen in reveals like Teen Wolf or the short-lived ABC sequence, The Baker and the Beauty. No doubt a few of them are available to kick begin the plot or be put in no matter hazard the sisters prepare dinner up. Outside of Jones, the opposite characters’ roles within the movie have but to be revealed.

The new Hocus Pocus will successfully have the identical plot as the unique movie again in 1993: by accident re-awakened by a trio of younger women, the Sanderson Sisters arrive in current day Salem and start wrecking the whole lot whereas trying to find youngsters to empty the life pressure out of them. Handling the observe up can be 27 Dresses and Dumplin’ director Anne Fletcher, who stated again in May that the brand new movie “is a movie for everyone, from the fans who grew up with the first film to the next generation of viewers…We should be laughing every day, and there is so much fun to be had with these three unbelievable women playing delicious characters from such a beloved film.”

Hocus Pocus 2 will hit Disney+ in 2022.