Though HBO Max landing an honest-to-god Meryl Streep movie is the more prestigious announcement, it’s not the only news coming from WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service. As reported by Deadline, the streamer has also ordered pilots for three new shows, one of which is going to be an adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s The Rules Of Magic (and therefore a prequel to the 1998 Sandra Bullock/Nicole Kidman movie Practical Magic). The series comes from Jessica Jones vets Melissa Rosenberg and Dana Baratta, and it will be about a family of troubled siblings living in ‘60s New York who happen to be—spoiler alert—descended from witches.
The other two shows are Generation, which comes from 17-year-old Zelda Barnz and executive producer Lena Dunham (it’s about the real stuff that teenagers go through), and a YA drama called Red Bird Lane (it’s a horror series about people who show up at a mysterious/spooky house and have to figure out what’s going on). HBO Max will launch next year at some point.
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I hope the prequel tries to explain how Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman could possibly be sisters.
It’s magic!
Adoption?
I’ve seen plenty of siblings look totally different from each other.
Sure will be awkward when those siblings finally get around to do a DNA test.
Fairly common set of Celtic genetics. Recessive redheads on both sides…..like my Grampy 2 on my dad’s side and the auburn my aunt had on my mom’s side. Grammy 2 and my mother’s father both had almost black hair….and I have a set of 6 cousins who range from a strawberry blond and auburn hair through browns to black like mine. Punnet squares are fun….
Yeah, hair color and all, but their features are nothing alike. Which can also happen, occasionally, but not often.
One’s a brunette and one’s a redhead? That’s my sis and me.
Hollywood vehicles are magical.
I was friends with a pair of fraternal twins in high school that looked less alike than those two. It happens.
Sisters I knew in high school were exactly this. One fair, blue-eyed and red headed. The other a brunette with brown eyes and an ability to tan. No family resemblance at all.
All I know is that Kidman looks really hot in that picture.
My sister and myself are as different looking as Sandra and Nicole in yet we are biological sisters with the exact same mother and father. We each just strongly favorite one parent over the other. We have received questions about it our entire lives.
“60s New York who happen to be … witches.”Sounds Bewitching, and who might The Marvelous Magical Misses be? Feel free to cast Krysten Ritter. Better than that weird hippie nonsense that was the movie. I like witch stuff, I think I tried it twice and I have no idea what that was about.
I hope it’ll be a prequel to the time my first-ever girlfriend called and asked if I wanted to see a movie with her, so I called up my friend and convinced him to come too, and also to have his parents drive us, and then spent my allowance on a ticket to Practical Magic, only for my girlfriend to leave and empty seat between me and her, and I just sat there, for more than a hundred minutes, trying to figure out what kind of movie I was watching. Will it end with the characters realizing they should’ve spent Saturday evening played WWF Smackdown, which had been their original plan?
Hoffman’s book is so much deeper than the movie, as is its prequel. The film version of Practical Magic wasn’t awful as a movie, it was more slapstick and just had very little to do with the book. “The Rules of Magic” is about two other sisters – the aunts who raised the Practical Magic protagonists – and their brother. It’s magical realism, not “Bewitched”.
…which comes from 17-year-old Zelda Barnz…At 17, I was so much less productive/successful than that, it’s possible we’re not even the same species.
HBO finally figured out a way to take all my money.
I met Akiva Goldsman (the middle of three credited screenwriters of Practical Magic) and asked him how the wonderful novel got turned into the abomination that was the film. He admitted that he hadn’t read the book; he was hired to rewrite the screenplay, which he wrote into a horror movie focused on Gillian (Nicole Kidman’s character), which was then rewritten by someone else into what became the movie.In other words, I hope The Rules of Magic sticks closer to its source material.
BRB gonna go re-read both books.