Filming Has Started For HOCUS POCUS 2 And More Cast Members Have Been Revealed!

Disney confirmed earlier in the year that we were getting a sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus, sometime in 2022.

News today has us more excited than Sarah Sanderson when she found her lucky rats tale.

The film is being billed as “the spooky sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic,” with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy all back as the beloved Sanderson Sisters.

Anne Fletcher (The Guilt Trip) is directing the movie, and we’ve learned via Rhode Island’s The Providence Journal this week that filming on Hocus Pocus 2 is now well underway!

The site reported on Tuesday, “A movie crew making the Disney sequel filmed Tuesday at La Salle Academy, and is said to be returning Wednesday, according to people on the set.”

In the sequel, “Three young women accidentally bring the Sanderson Sisters back to modern day Salem and must figure out how to stop the child-hungry witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on the world.”

Also as far as casting news goes,  THR reports tonight that Sam Richardson (Werewolves Within) will also star in the sequel.

This is great news for the sequel, as Richardson is one of the funniest and most likable actors out there today. He was also seen earlier this year in Amazon’s The Tomorrow War.