--- title: Disney Is Planning a 'Sister Act' Remake description: It'll be a "new take" on the 1992 comedy canonical: https://time.com/3907929/disney-sister-act-remake/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-03T20:57:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:53:07.695Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Disney Is Planning a 'Sister Act' Remake og:description: It'll be a "new take" on the 1992 comedy og:url: https://time.com/3907929/disney-sister-act-remake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20285942dd376c0d/698852e58e06015621460ca4/sister_act_1992_06.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: sister act whoopie goldberg 1992 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Disney Is Planning a 'Sister Act' Remake twitter:description: It'll be a "new take" on the 1992 comedy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20285942dd376c0d/698852e58e06015621460ca4/sister_act_1992_06.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hallelujah! There's a _Sister Act_ Remake on the Way ## Video: 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2014-02-12. Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission._ by [Nina Terrero / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nina Terrero / Entertainment Weekly Jun 3, 2015 8:57 PM UTC  Sister Act (1992) Directed by Emile Ardolino Shown: Whoopie Goldberg Sister Act (1992) Directed by Emile Ardolino Shown: Whoopie GoldbergBuena Vista Pictures/Photofest by [Nina Terrero / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nina Terrero / Entertainment Weekly Jun 3, 2015 8:57 PM UTC True believers, consider this a gift from above: Disney is planning a reboot of _Sister Act_, calling the upcoming effort a “new take” on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg hit comedy. The remake, first mentioned in the [_Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sister-act-remake-works-at-799813), is currently in development and will be written by Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah, whose female-skewing projects include _Legally Blonde_, _She’s the Man,_ and _10 Things I Hate About You_. Allie Shearmur, whose last Disney project was the live-action [_Cinderella_ reboot](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/12/cinderella-review), will produce. [News of the remake comes 23 years after the original, starring ](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/12/cinderella-review)[Goldberg](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/17/whoopi-goldberg-dolores-jermaine-the-view) as a lounge singer who disguises herself as a nun after her mobster beau (Harvey Keitel) commits a murder. The Disney comedy—which also starred Maggie Smith as Mother Superior, Kathy Najimy as Sister Mary Patrick, and Wendy Makkena as Sister Mary Robert—went on earn $232 million worldwide, and spawned both a 1993 sequel and Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that premiered in 2006. Disney is staying mum on plot details and casting, though there’s no harm in praying that some—if not all—of the original stars will return. And it might just take a miracle to get Goldberg on board, as the 59-year-old is currently a moderator on ABC’s daytime talk show _The View_ and has committed to executive producing an upcoming reality show on Centric that will star her daughter, Alex Martin. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/03/sister-act-remake) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ _Read next:_ [_Disney Is Working on a Live-Action ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ From Fantasia_](http://time.com/3907345/disney-fantasia-night-on-bald-mountain/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3907929/disney-sister-act-remake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3907929/disney-sister-act-remake/"},"headline":"Hallelujah! 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