The ‘Practical Magic’ Sequel Has an Official Release Date

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock are reuniting for the uncommon reboot we will root for: the pair is making ready to whisk audiences again into the witchy international in their 1998 myth movie, Practical Magic. Rumors in regards to the sequel were within the ether since closing summer season, however the venture is now indubitably within the works, with a showed theatrical unencumber date besides.

Directed via Joan Didion’s nephew, Griffin Dunne, the unique Practical Magic used to be slightly of a flop when it used to be first launched, receiving combined evaluations. It has since grow to be a cult feminist vintage, inspiring legions of lovers (and Pinterest moodboards) with its coastal ’90s witch aesthetic. (It doesn’t harm that its two leads have since grow to be two of probably the most well known and lauded actresses in their era.)

Here’s the entirety we find out about Practical Magic 2 to this point:

What will the Practical Magic 2 plot be?

Kidman and Bullock will reprise their roles as sisters Sally and Gillian Owens. In the unique movie, which used to be tailored from the 1995 novel of the similar title via Alice Hoffman, the pair discover ways to harness their supernatural powers to triumph over an ancestral curse that ends up in a number of premature deaths and an incapacity to have wholesome romantic relationships. It’s now not totally transparent the place the sequel will pick out up, nevertheless it’s reportedly in response to a later installment in Hoffman’s Practical Magic guide sequence.

Who else might be within the Practical Magic 2 forged?

So a long way, Kidman and Bullock are the one showed forged contributors. The unique movie integrated Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, and a tender Evan Rachel Wood—we’ll have to stick tuned to peer in the event that they’ll go back.

Back in February, Kidman showed at the crimson carpet that the sequel used to be “moving ahead rapidly,” however demurred on some other main points, telling journalists to “ask Sandy.”

Akiva Goldsman, one of the vital unique movie’s writers, will pen the screenplay (he additionally co-wrote one in all Kidman’s different campy ’90s classics, Batman Forever). Susanne Bier, who just lately labored with Kidman on The Perfect Couple, will direct.

When is the Practical Magic 2 unencumber date?

Practical Magic 2 has a theatrical unencumber date of September 18, 2026, simply in time for Halloween. On May 6, Warner Bros. posted a snappy teaser for the movie, which featured Kidman and Bullock voicing an incantation finishing within the unencumber date: “Tooth of wolf and morning dew. Something old and something new. Let the spell begin to mix. Sept. 18, 2026.”