--- description: Tina Fey is indeed involved in the making of a family-safe movie about witches, but it won't be "Hocus Pocus 2," which isn’t even a thing. title: Talk of Tina Fey's 'Hocus Pocus' Sequel Isn't Exactly Accurate image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4037ee28a8bf924/69869aa71eebf7c26e371c20/tina-fey.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Don't Be Bewitched by Rumors of Tina Fey's _Hocus Pocus_ Sequel by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 7, 2014 7:32 AM CUT  Tina Fey arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Muppets Most Wanted' at the El Capitan Theatre on March 11, 2014 in Hollywood. Tina Fey arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Muppets Most Wanted' at the El Capitan Theatre on March 11, 2014 in Hollywood.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 7, 2014 7:32 AM CUT There were rumors going around over the weekend linking a possible sequel to _Hocus Pocus_, the 1993 Disney movie that’s since gained something of a cult following, and Tina Fey, who was said to be both producing and starring in it. To quickly correct the record: Fey is indeed involved in the making of a family-safe movie about witches, but it won’t be _Hocus Pocus 2,_ which [according to Deadline](http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/hocus-pocus-disney-tina-fey-untitled-witch-project/ "undefined") isn’t even a thing, at least yet. _Hocus Pocus,_ if you’ll recall, was the first in Disney’s string of attempts throughout the ’90s to perfect a horror film with just enough levity and innocence to make it marketable to kids. These movies — _Don’t Look Under the Bed_, _Halloweentown_, etc. — invariably aired on the Disney Channel sometime in October and gave some big names an unlikely start. (Before Sarah Jessica Parker was Carrie Bradshaw, she was a witch with an appetite for the souls of children in _Hocus Pocus_; 15-year-old Kirsten Dunst, meanwhile, was in _Tower of Terror_.) We don’t know much about Fey’s endeavor, other than that she’s [in on it with Allison Shearmur](http://www.thewrap.com/tina-fey-to-star-in-produce-untitled-witch-project-for-disney/ "undefined"), who was [an executive producer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1903054/ "undefined") on _The Hunger Games: Catching Fire._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2961482/dont-be-bewitched-by-rumors-of-tina-feys-hocus-pocus-sequel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2961482/dont-be-bewitched-by-rumors-of-tina-feys-hocus-pocus-sequel/"},"headline":"Don't Be Bewitched by Rumors of Tina Fey's Hocus Pocus Sequel","datePublished":"2014-07-07T07:32:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:59:36.460Z","description":"The 30 Rock star is making a witch movie, but the supposed sequel to the 1993 Disney film is apparently all talk","url":"https://time.com/2961482/dont-be-bewitched-by-rumors-of-tina-feys-hocus-pocus-sequel/","keywords":["movies","tina fey","Disney"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4037ee28a8bf924/69869aa71eebf7c26e371c20/tina-fey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4037ee28a8bf924/69869aa71eebf7c26e371c20/tina-fey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tina Fey arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Muppets Most Wanted' at the El Capitan Theatre on March 11, 2014 in Hollywood.","caption":"Tina Fey arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Muppets Most Wanted' at the El Capitan Theatre on March 11, 2014 in Hollywood.","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2961482/dont-be-bewitched-by-rumors-of-tina-feys-hocus-pocus-sequel/","name":"Don't Be Bewitched by Rumors of Tina Fey's Hocus Pocus Sequel"}}]}] ```