Hocus Pocus Stars Want Sequel - And Need Your Help...

If you've been longing for a sequel to 1993's classic Halloween movie Hocus Pocus, then you are not alone.

Bette Midler has revealed that she and co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are all up for pulling their witches' hats on and stirring the cauldron again - and she's enlisting fans to help make it happen.

Speaking to fans in a Reddit AMA, the 68-year-old star said: "You have to go to send in your cards to the Walt Disney company. The ball's in their court.

"Inundate the Disney company, because I have canvassed the girls and they are willing to do it, but we have no say in it, so if you want a Hocus Pocus 2, ask the Walt Disney company.

16 Facts You Might Not Have Known About Hocus Pocus...

Leonardo DiCaprio was originally supposed to portray Max Dennison, but he turned down the opportunity, to star in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape instead.

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Many countries refer to Hocus Pocus as Abracadabra.

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Hocus Pocus is the only movie that Kenny Ortega has ever directed without also doing the choreography. Recognise the name? Ortega directed both the High School Musical franchise and the recent Dirty Dancing remake.

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During a 20th anniversary screening of the film, actor Doug Jones - who played Winifred Sanderson’s undead ex-boyfriend Billy Butcherson - revealed that the moths that come out of his mouth at the end of Hocus Pocus are real and not CGI!

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Rosie O'Donnell was originally offered the part of Mary Sanderson in Hocus Pocus, but turned it down, as she didn’t want to play a “scary witch”.

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Before he starred in Hocus Pocus, Omri Katz (who plays Max in the film) played Marshall Teller in super creepy kids show, Eerie Indiana.

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In the scene where the Sanderson sisters meet ‘Satan’, Satan and his wife are played by well-known directors Penny and Garry Marshall, who are actually brother and sister in real life.

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During the musical number ‘I Put A Spell On You’, Bette Midler makes a reference to Gypsy, another film she starred in that same year.

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Sarah Jessica Parker did all her own singing in the movie, which makes the scene where she sings ‘Come Little Children’ whilst riding her broom over Salem all the more enchanting.

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Whilst it would have made perfect sense for the film to come out in October, Hocus Pocus was in fact released in cinemas in the summer of 1993, to avoid competition from The Nightmare Before Christmas and Addams Family Values.

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During an interview in 2008, Bette Midler said that out of all her movie characters, Winifred Sanderson was her favourite.

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‘Almost Unreal’ by Swedish pop duo Roxette was originally meant to feature in the film’s soundtrack, but was dropped at the last minute. It instead featured in box-office stinker Super Mario Bros.

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Jodie Rivera, who played Emily Binx, now goes by the name of VenetianPrincess on YouTube. Her videos, which are mostly popstar parodies, have attracted over 380,000,000 views!

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After locking the Sanderson sisters in the school kiln, Dani, Max and Allison walk to the park, and the house shown behind them is the same house Thora Birch (Dani)’s character lives in in American Beauty.

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Witches from 1693 would not have had fillings, SJP…

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11 years after playing a witch in Hocus Pocus, Sarah Jessica Parker found out that her 10th great-grandmother Esther Elwell had been arrested in Salem in the late 1600s, for committing “sundry acts of witchcraft” and choking a neighbour to death!

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It was thought earlier this year that 30 Rock star Tina Fey had been recruited by Disney to pen a sequel - but it later emerged that she was working on a different project.

Although the original Hocus Pocus was mocked by critics on its release, it later developed a cult following on DVD and video.