‘Sister Act 3’: Everything To Know About The Whoopi Goldberg Sequel That’s In The Works

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Kathy Najimy arsenic  Mary Sanderson, Bette Midler arsenic  Winifred Sanderson, and Sarah Jessica Parker arsenic  Sarah Sanderson successful  Disney's live-action HOCUS POCUS 2, exclusively connected  Disney+. Photo by Matt Kennedy. © 2022 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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  • Disney archetypal announced Sister Act 3 back successful 2020, with an anticipated streaming merchandise on Disney+.
  • Whoopi Goldberg named 3 immense Hollywood stars that she wants to articulation her for the sequel
  • Whoopi told her Sister Act costar Kathy Najimy that Hocus Pocus 2 helped revive involvement successful the film
  • Tyler Perry revealed helium has a “good script” for the movie successful September 2022
  • The 1992 archetypal Sister Act was a captious and container bureau smash, earning $230 million, portion the sequel a twelvemonth later, starring Lauryn Hill, pulled successful $125 million

Whoopi Goldberg has agelong been down different installment to the Sister Act franchise. That comes arsenic nary astonishment to fans, arsenic the 1992 archetypal was an unthinkable occurrence erstwhile it debuted, winning implicit critics and audiences alike, to the tune of $230 million. Fresh disconnected her Oscar triumph for Ghost, Whoopi was the transportation cleanable premix of wit and play playing Sister Mary Clarence, a erstwhile nightclub vocalist who witnesses a mob execution and goes undercover arsenic a nun, creating a sensational singing radical on the way.

Whoopi Goldberg has opened up astir a imaginable ‘Sister Act 3.’ (Everett Collection)

The sequel, Sister Act 2, came accelerated and furious a twelvemonth later, with Whoopi reprising her relation and Lauryn Hill joining the formed close earlier she made it large with The Fugees and her ain solo philharmonic career. The movie was a deed arsenic well, taking successful $125 million.

Now the 3rd enactment is picking up steam aft Disney archetypal announced it backmost successful 2020, with an anticipated streaming merchandise connected Disney+. Keep speechmaking to find retired everything we cognize astir Sister Act 3, truthful we tin each get acceptable to sing on with those hilarious, habit-wearing nuns!

Cast

Whoopi conscionable happened to driblet her imagination formed erstwhile she stopped by Charlamagne the God’s bid Hell of a Week on Oct. 13, 2022. “Hopefully we’ll get it unneurotic and get it done sooner alternatively than later,” the View big said astir the sequel. “I’m going to inquire for Keke [Palmer] to travel in. I privation everybody to travel in. I want Lizzo to travel in. I privation everybody. I privation the miss with the chest, what’s her name?… Nicki [Minaj]! I privation Nicki to come. I privation everybody. I privation arsenic galore radical who privation to person immoderate fun, due to the fact that I really, desperately request to person immoderate fun.”

Whoopi Goldberg said her imagination formed includes Nicki Minaj, Lizzo and Keke Palmer. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

In what seemed similar the stars were aligning, literally, lone a week earlier Whoopi’s privation list, a fan-made poster for Sister Act 3 popped up connected societal media, touting Whoopi, Keke and Bette Midler arsenic the cast. Keke took to her Twitter to stock the poster art, writing, “God bless y’all for this manifestation implicit my life. [Disney], this is what they asked for I’m conscionable present to relay.”

Around the aforesaid time, a subordinate of the archetypal cast, Kathy Najimy, stopped by The View wherever Whoopi insisted that Kathy’s highly anticipated sequel Hocus Pocus 2, which premiered connected Sept. 30, 2022 and became the biggest movie debut connected Disney+ successful the U.S., per The Wrap, helped revive involvement successful the Sister Act franchise. “It took a small while, but it’s happening,” Whoopi told Kathy, per ET. “You each helped that happen, I think, due to the fact that they brought Hocus Pocus back. They yet said, ‘We mightiness arsenic good enactment those nuns backmost retired determination and spot if they person immoderate juice.'”

God bless y’all for this manifestation implicit my life. @WaltDisneyCo, this is what they asked for I’m conscionable present to relay. pic.twitter.com/rTSsk1hVOG

— Keke Palmer (@KekePalmer) October 8, 2022

Blackish alum Jenifer Lewis, who co-starred with Whoopi and Kathy successful the Sister Act films, besides stopped by The View successful Sept. 2022 and said she was acceptable to motion up for different one. “You cognize we’re inactive going to bash that movie,” Whoopi told Jenifer connected the Sept. 30, 2022 taping, per ET, earlier turning to her co-hosts and adding, “I bash everything I tin to enactment with her, due to the fact that she’s fun.”

Script

Whoopi besides gave a hint astatine the screenplay portion speaking with Kathy connected The View in Sept 2022, saying she should beryllium “getting a publication astatine the extremity of the month.” Whoopi added that Tyler Perry was connected committee arsenic a producer. It was really Tyler himself who gave the biggest update connected a publication erstwhile helium stopped by the ABC speech amusement that aforesaid month.

“I emotion the thought of america making this hap but you know, the Hollywood strategy moves a small slower than I’d similar to,” Tyler explained connected The View, according to Deadline. “So we’ve got a bully script. We’re disconnected to a large start. We’re conscionable trying to get everybody moving successful the close absorption truthful we tin get it going.”

Rest assured fans, HollywoodLife volition support you posted connected each the incoming quality astir the adjacent installment of your favourite singing nun movie franchise Sister Act.

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