‘Hocus Pocus 3’ update revealed as Sarah Jessica Parker talks sequel

Prepare a soothing circle, because Disney apparently does not mention Hocus Pocus 3 Anytime soon.

More than two years after the studio revealed that a third party Hocus Pocus The film was in development after the streaming success of the 2022 Hocus Pocus 2Star Sarah Jessica Parker provided a surprising update during a Sunday evening appearance on Andy Cohen’s Look at what’s going on live.

In response to a question from the spectator of two fans living in London – where unconfirmed rumors have suggested earlier this year that the third film should potentially shoot – the And just like that The actress said the movement on Hocus Pocus 3 does not necessarily occur.

“Um, well, for expatriates in London,” she teased. “More developments, except that we would like to do it.”

Parker reiterated that “we would like to do it” and said that “we had a few conversations” at the planning stadium, although it was not clear if she specifically wanted to say her colleagues Stars Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy.

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Shortly after Disney announced in the summer of 2023 that a third film was in development, the writer Jen d’Angelo told EW that she had many ideas for the future, in particular by potentially extending the scenario stated by Hannah Waddingham’s mother Witch in the 2022 suite.

“We are always in the story phase, we are still working on it. We have worked on certain ideas, and it was fun to go back to this world, and we have so many directions in which to go and so many new characters to explore,” said Angelo at the time. “We only scratched the surface of Hannah Waddingham’s mother.”

In an interview of June 2024 on The show Jess CagleMidler gave a previous update, saying that Disney was “very perverse and very slowly” working on the third film.

D’Angelo also confirmed that EW broke out at the beginning of 2022 that Thora Birch would not be involved in the future, because we reported that OG Birch, Vinssa Shaw and Omri Katz – who represented children who would not return to the second film.

“I was so invested to try to get [Birch as] Dani returns to history. We also had a lot of different versions of this, where she was really part of it, “D’Angelo revealed, noting that” there were versions where she briefly belonged as a cameo “, and another where” she has an entire anti-magic arsenal “to fight the modern resurrection of the Sandersons in the consequence.

When he was contacted to comment on the third film, original Hocus Pocus Actor Katz also told EW that he was interested in participating.

“Yes, I would come back if Disney was approaching me,” he told EW. “It would be an honor to come back, I hope with some of my distribution comrades, and to make a fun addition to the franchise!”

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When it was released in streaming in September 2022 on Disney +, Hocus Pocus 2 received positive critical criticisms and beat files on the Disney streaming platform. In an interview at the time, Parker told Ew that Najimy “had a good idea that the third should be animated”, while she was watching, “it would be cool and an intelligent idea. It is fun, funny and could be interesting and innovative, like the old or the new one. [animation]. Of course, I would be happy to have a conversation, it simply depends on what Kathy and Bette want! “”

Watch Parker Chat of a Hocus Pocus 3 Update above.