Final 12 months, it was formally introduced that Warner Bros. is transferring ahead with a sequel to the 1998 movie Sensible Magic, with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reprising the roles of sister witches Sally and Gillian Owens. Producer Denise Di Novi has promised that the sequel, which is aiming for a September 18, 2026 theatrical launch, will honor the unique and never try and reinvent the wheel – and now, Selection stories that the primary forged member apart from Bullock and Kidman has simply signed on. Joey King (The Kissing Sales space) has been forged in Sensible Magic 2 because the daughter of Bullock’s character.
King and Bullock have been each within the forged of the 2022 motion movie Bullet Prepare, and King performed Kidman’s daughter within the Netflix rom-com A Household Affair simply final 12 months.
Based mostly on a novel by Alice Hoffman and directed by Griffin Dunne from a screenplay by Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, and Adam Brooks, Sensible Magic revolves round two witch sisters, Sally Owens (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman), who stay in a small city alongside their eccentric Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing). Because the sisters try and apply their craft, they face closed-minded prejudice and a curse that threatens to stop them from ever discovering lasting love. The curse dictates that whoever falls in love with one of many sisters dies an premature dying. Sally and Gillian stay separate lives with totally different approaches to their magical items. Sally chooses to stay quietly, whereas Gillian is a wild youngster who flaunts her skills. When the sisters unintentionally kill Gillian’s violent associate, Jimmy Angelov (Goran Visnjic), a string of supernatural occasions unfold, sending the duo right into a race to undo a household curse.
Akiva Goldsman is writing the script for Sensible Magic 2. Plot particulars haven’t been revealed but, however Hoffman has given the filmmakers loads of supply materials to work with: the Sensible Magic novel has two prequels (The Guidelines of Magic and Magic Classes) and a sequel (The Ebook of Magic).
Susanne Bier, who directed Bullock in Netflix’s Hen Field and labored with Kidman on HBO’s The Undoing and Netflix’s The Excellent Couple, is on board to direct the movie, which is predicted to enter manufacturing in London later this summer season.
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