Warner Bros. has unveiled the first teaser for Practical Magic 2, bringing Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman back as Sally and Gillian Owens, sisters in a family of witches that has spent centuries under a curse of lovelessness. The studio had previewed the sequel at its CinemaCon presentation last week, and the new teaser arrived after that showing in Las Vegas.
Bullock opens the practical magic 2 trailer in character as Sally, warning, “I’m sure you’ve heard of the Owens family — the ones from Massachusetts, the ones their neighbors whisper are witches.” The teaser quickly turns playful and ominous at once, with Gillian telling a man played by Lee Pace that, “A really horrible death…It’s not great for the Tinder bio.” Later, Sally adds, “Everyone we love dies,” while the footage, set in part to Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut Song,” introduces the next generation through Joey King and Maisie Williams as Sally’s daughters.
The sequel follows the sisters as they try to break a spell by facing dark family secrets and sacrificing for each other, a setup that ties directly back to the first film. Practical Magic, directed by Griffin Dunne, reached theaters in 1998 as an adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s 1995 novel. This time, Susanne Bier is directing, with Akiva Goldsman returning to write the script alongside Georgia Pritchett. Bullock, Kidman and Denise Di Novi are producing, and the cast also includes Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Xolo Maridueña and Solly McLeod.
The teaser leans into the uneasy mix that made the original linger: family banter, romance, death and the sense that the Owens women are always one mistake away from trouble. Gillian tries to soften the mood by saying, “Everything’s going to be okay,” but Sally’s reply — “Everything’s going to be okay? Just like it was when we had to bury a corpse under a rose bush? That kind of fine, or different?” — makes clear the sequel is not pretending the curse has gone anywhere. With the film set to open in theaters worldwide on September 11, Warner Bros. has answered the question the teaser raised at CinemaCon: Bullock and Kidman are back, and the family mess is too.
