Tony Hale, Hannah Waddingham, More Join Hocus Pocus 2

October 31, 2021

Tony Hale, Hannah Waddingham, and a handful of other actors have joined the cast of the highly anticipated Hocus Pocus 2, the sequel to the legendary horror comedy film.

The group of actors will all join a cast that is shaping up to be quite star-studded, as Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy will also be in the film and reprising their roles from the first film. The sequel will focus on three young women who accidentally bring back the Sanderson Sisters, this time to modern-day Salem. There, they must figure out how to stop the witches from once again trying to cause havoc and chaos.

The castings were confirmed in a series of Disney tweets, which you can see below:

Joining the cast are Whitney Peak, Lilia Buckingham, Belissa Escobedo, Doug Jones, Tony Hale, Sam Richardson, Hannah Waddingham, Juju Brener, Froy Gutierrez, Taylor Henderson, and Nina Kitchen.

Fall 2022 on #DisneyPlus, #HocusPocus2 cometh to us!#Hallowstream

— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) October 31, 2021

The original film was led by multi-award-winning actress Bette Midler (The Rose) and four-time Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) along with Kathy Najimy (Sister Act). The film followed the story of a teenage boy, who accidentally brings a trio of villainous Salem witches back to life on Halloween night. Although Hocus Pocus wasn’t a critical and commercial success by the time of its release, it still stood the test of time through countless annual airings and has now become a cult classic film.

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Hocus Pocus 2 will be written by Jen D’Angelo (Workaholics), who was also tasked by Disney to create a way on how Midler, Parker, and Najimy could be able to reprise their roles as Winifred, Sarah, and Mary in the planned sequel Further details on the film’s plot and new characters are still being kept under wraps.