Last year, it was officially announced that Warner Bros. is moving forward with a sequel to the 1998 film Practical Magic, with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reprising the roles of sister witches Sally and Gillian Owens. Producer Denise Di Novi has promised that the sequel, which is aiming for a September 18, 2026 theatrical release, will honor the original and not attempt to reinvent the wheel – and now, Variety reports that the first cast member other than Bullock and Kidman has just signed on. Joey King (The Kissing Booth) has been cast in Practical Magic 2 as the daughter of Bullock’s character.

King and Bullock were both in the cast of the 2022 action film Bullet Train, and King played Kidman’s daughter in the Netflix rom-com A Family Affair just last year.

Based on a novel by Alice Hoffman and directed by Griffin Dunne from a screenplay by Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman,...