Good morning everyone! I’ve been practically brimming with joy, skipping around watering the garden like a water faerie. Why you ask? Because there has been some rumblings about a sequel to the movie Practical Magic. Growing up Practical Magic was one of our household favorites, chocolate cake for breakfast and pretending to practice magic in the garden. However, After hearing about the sequel I binged read the book, and BOY are there some huge differences between the two, let’s brew about it!
Practical Magic, the movie was brought to life back in 1998 with amazing actresses, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman both of which will be reprising their roles. Nothing about the story line for sequel has been mentioned yet, so it seems to be a bit tight lip, the only squeeze so far is that it’s coming out next year in 2026. Now, getting excited I read the book. Spoiler alerts, here we come, so Sandra Bullock’s character, Sally, doesn’t stay with the aunts after her husband dies but rather takes her girls and whisks them away and lives in another state. In fact, neither sister care for the aunts and avoid them like the plague until you guessed it Nicole Kidman’s character, Gilly, brings her dead boyfriend in the trunk of her car. It kind of plays out similar from there but I wasn’t exactly as enamored with it as I was the movie.
Usually, when it comes to the books turned movies, the books are better, but this go around I feel there is a sense of magic that the Practical Magic movie brings and I hope they can rekindle that magic in the sequel. Either way I will stance under the full moon in my garden with my moon water and listen to Stevie Nix. Which do you prefer, the book or the movie? Are you excited to see what they do?
As Always Keep On Brewin!