Last week, we passed along the awesome news that Disney's sequel to director Kenny Ortega and screenwriter Mick Garris' comedy-horror HOCUS POCUS may have snagged the original cast including Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy to return. And today we have word via Parker over on Instagram that the original cast has all said yes to HOCUS POCUS 2 and are just waiting to get started.
Specifically, Parker said this in a comment on a post she made to Instagram this weekend (which you can check out below):
We have all said yes. Now we wait.
This update comes to us on the heels of Midler saying:
Oh, I hope they get to me before I'm a corpse. I hope Disney+ is a big success and I hope we get to do it, because [Winifred] is, of course, one of my favorite characters. I mean she's, in the zeitgeist. I have met people — I've met grownup people, like 40-year-olds, 50-year-olds — who say, 'Oh I remember that! Hocus Pocus! I was brought up on that.' It's so mortifying 'cause I still look 35. [Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker] actually talk about it whenever we see each other. We laugh, we say, 'Oh, wouldn't it be great if?' Because all of us had pretty much the same experience on it. I can't wait to read the script. We're gonna see what happens.
Now I don't know about you guys, but the thought of a HOCUS POCUS 2 without the original cast just seems like a waste of time to me. How about you? Let us know below! Now, what about Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw, Jason Marsden, and Doug Jones, Disney!?
HOCUS POCUS was directed by Kenny Ortega from a screenplay written by Neil Cuthbert and Mick Garris (THE STAND). It starred Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, and Vinessa Shaw, with Jason Marsden as the voice of Binks, and Doug Jones as Billy Butcherson. If you love the kid's classic Halloween flick as much as we do, you can snag a copy on Blu-ray over on Amazon RIGHT HERE.