Cult ’90s film Practical Magic is getting a TV reboot

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21st Aug 2019

We’ve called it once and we’ll call it again—2019 is the year of the ‘90s reboot!

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Plucking out the best of the decade’s television and film offerings and bringing them into this century seems to have become somewhat of a familiar pattern for today’s small-screen offerings, with Mad About You, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Four Weddings and a Funeral all tapped for a revisit this year. But are we tired of this peak reboot era we’re currently existing in? Not one bit!

In fact, we’re even made room in our nostalgia-loving hearts and are ready for new shows to breathe life back into another ‘90s film favourite. So it’s just as well that the cult film Practical Magic, starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as the Owens sisters, was recently announced as the next throwback film in line to receive the reboot treatment.

Never caught the classic? Or don’t quite remember what the fantasy-filled film covered? Allow us to recap.

Gillian (Kidman) and Sally (Bullock) Owens are sisters with a few kind of big secrets up their sleeves—one, they’re both witches, and two, “any man who wins the heart of an Owens woman is bound to end up six feet under”, as their Aunty Franny (played by Stockard Channing) so bluntly puts it in the film.

As a detective investigates the mysterious deaths of each of their loves, the sisters seek out a way to break the curse which has long left countless men deceased in their path. All the while, the sisters along with their eccentric aunty—by whom they were raised following the death of their parents—are facing the prejudices of their small town neighbours.

According to a recent release issued by HBO in reference to its brand new streaming service—HBO Max—and its programming, a pilot for the reboot has been ordered and, if successful, will be extended into a 10 episode series, each consisting of an hour of drama and witchy antics.

But the series won’t be continuing the Owens sisters’ tale post-film. Instead, it will serve as a prequel, informed by the novels Rules of Magic and Practical Magic, by Alice Hoffman.

What will the prequel series get into? Well, as reported by Entertainment Weekly, the characters have a “journey towards self-discovery and self-acceptance” ahead of them, not to mention they’ll be dealing with a whole lot of “grief, war, bigotry and dark magic, not to mention a centuries-old curse designed to keep them away from love.”

More specifically, Vulture details the series’ synopsis as a story which follows “three siblings as they realize that they’re actually descended from witches,” an origin-based storyline true to prequel form.

No word yet on when the pilot will air, but watch this space.