Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest back for ‘Practical Magic 2’ as the aunts

Attach the mixer and turn on candles because the aunts are back!

The best Midnight Margaritas suppliers come back Magic Practical 2. Stégard Channing and Dianne Wiest join the cast of the Witchy suite, a monitoring of the 1998 film Practical magic.

Entertainment Weekly can confirm that award -winning actresses will resume their roles of Aunt Jet (Wiest) and Aunt Franny (Channing), the two women responsible for raising it from the Owens Sally sisters (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) and teach them magic. The film was based on the novel by Alice Hoffman 1995 of the same name.

Although we know little about the details of the plot of the suite, producer Denise Di Novi, who also produced the original film, told EW last year that he would inspire Hoffman’s 2021 Practical magic following, The magic book.

“We are going to be very faithful,” said Di Novi. “We are aware of the importance of these characters and this film for so many people. We are not going to reinvent the wheel. We are going to draw books by Alice Hoffman, as the first film did, and we will be faithful to the chronology of the number of years later.”

Hoffman wrote four Practical magic A total of novels, although two of them were conceived as prequellands of the original in 1995.

Joining the cast of Bullock, Kidman, Wiest and Channing are new distribution members: Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña and Solly McLeod. King will play the role of the girl’s daughter of Bullock, but he is little known on the intrigue or the character’s details for new arrivals.

“Twenty-five years ago, Sally, Gillian, Aunt Jet and Aunt Franny invaded the pages of Alice Hoffman’s beloved novel and in theaters around the world,” read a production team declaration “, and we are delighted to bring the Owens family back to the big screen with Joey, Lee, La Maisie, Solly and Xolo in our history. to new fans and those who have been with us from the start.

Earlier this year, Kidman and Bullock announced that they were officially returning for the film. According to Warner Bros., production on the suite is now officially underway. The project was announced for the first time last summer.

Susanne Bier (The perfect couple, bird box) is attached to Direct, taking the bar of Griffin Dunne, who supervised the first film. Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the original, is back, co-writing the script alongside Georgia Pritchett (Succession). Not only Bullock and Kidman resume their roles, but they also assume production tasks alongside Di Novi.

The film should be released on September 18, 2026, just in time for the frightening season.