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Bette Midler urges Disney to hurry with Hocus Pocus 3 script: 'Get us while we’re still breathing'

Bette Midler urges Disney to hurry with a 'Hocus Pocus 3' script. 'Get us while we're still breathing,' the actress said of herself, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy.

Elsewhere on Busy This Week, Midler also admits that, upon Hocus Pocus' initial release in 1993, she felt that the film was a "dud," until it gained traction as a "cult classic" due to subsequent airings on the Disney Channel each fall. In June, Midler also spoke about the third Hocus Pocus movie, telling The Jess Cagle Show that the minds behind the film are "kind of talking about a third, very gingerly and very gently," but she had nothing concrete to share just yet. While Katz, Shaw, and Birch didn't return for Hocus Pocus 2, D'Angelo told EW that initial versions of the script included cameos for Max and bullies Jay and Ice, as well as an expanded role for Birch's Dani Dennison as a teacher at a Salem high school attended by a group of new teens (Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo, Lilia Buckingham) who resurrect the Sanderson Sisters.

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