Maisie Williams and Joey King are next-gen witches in 'Practical Magic 2'

A sequel for 1998’s cult classic Practical Magic was announced back in 2024, and today a trailer for the new film, appropriately titled Practical Magic 2, dropped, confirming its September 11 release date.

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, who are both back in their starring roles, introduced the trailer at CinemaCon last week, with Kidman proclaiming to the crowd, “The witches are back!” And with that declaration, the countdown for the days until the legendary actresses resurrect two of their most enchanting roles began. If you can’t remember the first one, a plot refresher: Sally and Gillian Owens are sister witches who must bear a family curse in which the men they love die. The were raised by their eccentric aunts (also witches), played by Stockard Channing and Dianne West, who, fortunately, also reprise their roles in this sequel.

“I’m sure you’ve heard of the Owens family. The ones from Massachusetts. The ones their neighbors whisper … are witches,” Bullock’s Sally says in the opening of the new trailer, before a bewildering Harry Nilsson “Coconut” needle drop.

While Bullock and Kidman likely still have quite a bit of screen time, the film will also focus on the next generation: Sally’s two daughters, played by Maisie Williams and Joey King. We first see the two young witches being embraced by the pair of eccentric aunts in the Owens’s giant Massachusetts mansion. Sally and Gillian once again grapple with their family curse (which now involves a new man, played by Lee Pace). Meanwhile, the younger witches are coming into their own powers, which appears particularly true for King’s character, who is startled by a spell she casts in the trailer.

In the original, Evan Rachel Wood and Alexandra Artrip played Sally’s red-headed daughter, Kylie, and her younger brunette daughter, Antonia, as children, respectively. The cast list has not been explicitly released, but we can put two and two together with King’s red hair and Williams’s brown hair.

American actor and filmmaker Griffin Dunne adapted the 1995 novel Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman into a film. The sequel, however, sees Susanne Bier (who directed Kidman in The Perfect Couple in 2024 and Bullock in Bird Box in 2018) take the reins.

Details about the plot are still super limited, but Warner Bros. released a synopsis, which explains that “Practical Magic 2 returns to a world steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic, as the Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all in a must-see cinematic event of fun, magic, and mayhem.”

Images: Warner Bros.

This article originally appeared on harpersbazaar.com

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