Vinessa Shaw, Thora Birch and Omri Katz inHocus Pocus(2023).Photo:Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett
Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett
IsHocus Pocus' Allison a witch? Many fans seem to think so — and directorKenny Ortegadoesn’t necessarily disagree.
“I thought she was bewitching as a teenage girl. It was not typical for Max [Omri Katz] to fall head over heels for her,” the director said. “She had a mystical beauty, and she was bewitching.”
“I did feel the whole time that there was a little witch there,” Ortega said, adding that he even spoke with Disney Channel years later about a “potential for a spinoff” that never panned out, that would explore more of that side of Allison’s character.
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Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw and Omri Katz inHocus Pocus(1993).Buena Vista/courtesy Everett
Buena Vista/courtesy Everett
Hocus Pocuswasn’t Allison’s last appearance in the franchise. In the 2018 bookHocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel, her character appears alongside her now-husband Max 25 years later, as parents to a 17-year-old daughter named Poppy who “finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory,” according to an official synopsis.
“When Halloween celebrations don’t quite go as planned, it’s a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches’ latest vile scheme,” it adds.
And while Allison didn’t appear in the long-awaited 2022 sequelHocus Pocus 2alongside Midler, 77, Parker, 58, and Najimy, 66, she has voiced her desire to return as her character.
“I haven’t heard anything,” Shaw, 47, toldEntertainment Tonightin October 2021. “I know, it’s so disappointing. I would love to do the sequel. It would be so much fun. I think there’s just a different storyline with younger people, but why can’t we all come back in some way?”
Kathy Najimy, Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker inHocus Pocus(1993).AJ Pics / Alamy
AJ Pics / Alamy
She also had a theory forwhere Allison would be 28 years laterafter teaming up with Max and his little sister Dani (Thora Birch) to save the children of Salem, Massachusetts.
“I feel like she and Max are still together but I think Allison’s from Salem and he always wants to be in California,” the actress said. “I think they did some sort of compromise and maybe she’s in Salem when the witches come back, you know, visiting her mom or something.”
AthirdHocus Pocusfilmwas announced as officially in development at Disney in June, afterHocus Pocus 2broke streaming records when itdebuted on Disney+ the previous September.
As for the potential involvement of Shaw, Katz, 47, and Birch, 41, for the third movie,Hocus Pocus 2screenwriter Jen D’Angelo toldVariety, “We tried so hard to get the original cast back for cameos [in the sequel] and then it just kept not working out for one reason or the other.”
“But I’m hoping inHocus Pocus 3,we’ll see Max and Allison living in California," she added.
source: people.com
