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“Why do we travel here, Nicole?” Sandra Bullock wondered.
“We travel to this spot for magic,” Nicole Kidman said, appropriately channeling her AMC advertisement transcript into promotion of her sequel Practical Magic 2.
The stars’ quality came during Warner Bros. CinemaCon sheet Tuesday, which wrapped pinch a reminiscence of their 1998 romanticist imagination Practical Magic and a tease of what fans tin expect from nan upcoming sequel.
You tin expect “midnight margaritas, jumping disconnected nan roof, and besides person our past catching up pinch us,” said Kidman. “We person our destinies, and nan family. I deliberation it’s going to beryllium really, really fun.”
Bullock said returning for nan sequel “felt for illustration we came backmost to a location that we erstwhile lived in” — and indeed, she and Kidman did.
“We rebuilt nan original location connected nan cliff,” said Bullock, “we filled that location pinch galore aged and caller characters that you’ll love, and brought Alice Hoffman’s Book of Magic to life.”
“Home is what this is,” Kidman echoed, “and getting to return to these characters that person been truthful loved and truthful shared, it really has been magical. And being backmost together, it conscionable clicked.”
While Practical Magic 2’s logline has antecedently been kept nether wraps, we now cognize that it reintroduces sisters Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman), portion of a multi-generational family of witches, cursed to beryllium loveless for centuries, arsenic they effort to break a spell by confronting acheronian secrets and sacrificing for each other.
Whereas Griffin Dunne directed nan first movie — an adjustment of nan 1995 caller from Alice Hoffman, pursuing witch sisters raised by their eccentric aunts — Susanne Bier (The Perfect Couple, Bird Box) directed this clip around. Akiva Goldsman, co-writer of nan original film, returned to pen nan book pinch Succession‘s Georgia Pritchett.
Pic’s formed besides includes nan returning Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing, arsenic good arsenic Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, and Solly McLeod. Produced by Bullock, Kidman, and nan returning Denise Di Novi, it releases successful theaters worldwide connected September 11.
