"My unofficial belief is that Max has a successful band, he's the drummer, they're touring," D'Angelo says, adding that he eventually ended up with Allison after they bonded while doing battle with the resurrected Sanderson Sisters witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) on Halloween night in 1993.
Of all the “Hocus Pocus” stars, Omri Katz is the only one who largely left Hollywood after starring in the film. Today, he runs a cannabis brand, but has noted that he'd be open to returning for future “Hocus Pocus” projects.
In the novel Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel, which is set 25 years after the events of the first film, Max and Allison are revealed to have married and had a daughter named Poppy.
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Max, Dani, and Allison, however, don't have any impact on Hocus Pocus 2. None of the three original characters return for cameos, with director Anne Fletcher citing their absence as due to difficulties in organically integrating them into the story.
Sadly, Thora Birch, who gave us some iconic lines like: "You're the ugliest thing that ever lived and you know it!", didn't reprise her role as Dani Dennison. Although the actress was asked to come back, she had to decline the offer due to scheduling conflicts.
And while Allison didn't appear in the long-awaited 2022 sequel Hocus Pocus 2 alongside Midler, 77, Parker, 58, and Najimy, 66, she has voiced her desire to return as her character. "I haven't heard anything," Shaw, 47, told Entertainment Tonight in October 2021. "I know, it's so disappointing.
Director Kenny Ortega hints at the possibility of Allison being a witch, expressing that he felt there was a little witch in the character throughout Hocus Pocus. While it is not confirmed that Allison is a witch in the Hocus Pocus canon, her fascination with witches and the supernatural raises the theory.
Just as Winifred attempts to consume his life force, she touches the hallowed ground of the graveyard and is thus petrified due to inherent unholiness, and is then reduced to green dust by sunrise, allowing Max to live. After the whole ordeal, he officially becomes Allison's boyfriend.
The witches come after Dani, Max and Allison in a graveyard. They place Dani in an open grave lined with salt. Dani is captured again, and Winifred tries to kill her because Dani called her ugly. To save Dani, Max drinks a potion and asks the witches to take him in her place.
Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw (born July 19, 1976) is an American film actress and model. She began her career as a child actor, and had her breakout role in Disney's 1993 Halloween comedy-fantasy film Hocus Pocus. Shaw also appeared in Ladybugs (1992) and L.A. Without a Map (1998). Los Angeles, California, U.S.
The theory began years after the film's initial release, partly because of a key scene that sees Allison sprinkle a canister of salt around her to ward off the witches. After she finishes, Winnie (Midler) calls her a "clever little white witch," leading many to believe that Allison was cut from the same spooky cloth.
Who is Max and Allison's daughter in Hocus Pocus 2?
In July 2018, a book titled Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel was released, containing a novelization of the film and a sequel story. The sequel focuses on Max and Allison's daughter, Poppy, who grew up hearing the family story of the original film and parents who avoid Halloween as much as possible.
Why can't the Sanderson sisters go into the cemetery?
In the film, Binx says that the cemetery is safe because witches can't set foot on hallowed ground. At the end of the film, however, Winifred stands on it while she tries to suck the life force out of Max.
Disney boss Sean Bailey confirmed that Hocus Pocus 3 was in the works in June 2023, following the long-awaited sequel being a hit on the streaming service. Hocus Pocus 2's director, Anne Fletcher, is returning for the new movie, according to TheWrap.
“I do know that there were, along the way, some concepts and some ideas about ways to bring us back. And for whatever reason, it just didn't work,” Birch continued. “Some of us were going to be on, some of us weren't. And then it just was such a roller coaster ride.
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Leonardo DiCaprio had the chance to play the lead role of Max Dennison in 1993 cult classic fantasy comedy movie Hocus Pocus, but ultimately turned it down.
This film suffers from a lazy script due to several rehashed lines or sequences from the original film. I get that the writers were aiming for the nostalgia of the original film, but it was completely overdone.
