If all of your long-term relationships end in a fatality, the problem may lie with you…unless it’s actually your ancestral curse.

In Practical Magic 2, much like in the original, it’s the latter that affects sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, played by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.

In the recently-released teaser for the movie, due out this fall, we see Sally and Gillian explain their dating woes to a character played by Lee Pace.

“You’re the Owens sisters,” Pace says.
“Yeah, everyone we love dies,” Sally responds.
Gillian adds, “A really horrible death. But I mean, it’s just — it’s not great for the Tinder bio.”

The synopsis for Practical Magic 2 says the film returns us “to a world steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic, as the Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all in a must-see cinematic event of fun, magic and mayhem.”

The teaser ends with Sally and Gillian on a train with Pace’s character, and Gillian says, “Everything’s going to be okay.”
Sally counters, “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?”

Practical Magic, directed by Griffin Dunne and written by Akiva Goldsman, Robin Swicord and Adam Brooks, was released by Warner Brothers back in 1998. The film was based on Alice Hoffman’s 1995 book of the same name.

Suzanne Bier directs the sequel, which Goldsman again co-wrote with Georgia Pritchett. The story comes from Hoffman’s sequel to the original, titled The Book of Magic, which was released in 2021.

In addition to Kidman and Bullock reprising their roles as Sally and Gilly Owens, the sequels returning cast includes Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest as Sally and Gilly’s aunts, Frances and Jet Owens. New cast additions Pace, Joey King, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña and Solly McLeod also star. King and Williams play Sally’s daughters.

Aidan Quinn, who played Sally’s love interest in the 1998 movie, will not be in the sequel. Also sidelined is Evan Rachel Wood, who played Sally’s daughter in the original. People magazine reports that neither actor was asked to join the cast, though both were willing.

Practical Magic 2 will appear in theaters beginning September 11th of this year.