Practical Magic 2 is getting closer to production, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are onboard, Susanne Bier is in talks to direct.
It was confirmed last year that Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in talks to reprise their roles for a sequel to the 1998 fantasy Practical Magic. Akiva Goldsman will return to write the script. Alice Hoffman, who wrote the original novel in 1995, also published a sequel called The Book Of Magic in 2021.
Based on the 1995 novel by Hoffman, Practical Magic put a slightly different spin in the romantic drama. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play witch sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, whose family has been plagued for generations by a curse that kills any man they fall in love with. They have to use their magic to destroy the spirit of Gillian’s abusive boyfriend.
The film also starred Goran Visnjic, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest and Aidan Quinn.
Directed by Griffin Dunne from a screenplay by Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman and Adam Brooks, the film didn’t succeed at the box office initially but has since become a cult classic. As such, sequel and spin-off talk.
A pilot for a television adaptation called Sudbury, named after the town in the film, was made in 2004, but it wasn’t picked up for a full series. Hoffman also wrote two prequel novels – The Rules of Magic in 2017 and Magic Lessons in 2020.
It seems the sequel movie is finally beginning to move forward though, according to Deadline, Susanne Bier is in talks to direct Practical Magic 2. She previously worked with Bullock on Netflix’s Bird Box, which currently ranks as one of the most watched films on the streaming service, and with Kidman on both the HBO series The Undoing and the Netflix miniseries The Perfect Couple.
Weāll keep you updated as we hear more.