Light a black flame for Thackery, Hocus Pocus 2 may have recast a talking cat?!
The original Thackery will not appear in Disney’s made-for-TV sequel

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Disney may have lured Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker back to Salem for a made-for-TV sequel to the millennial classic Hocus Pocus, but not everyone is making a return. While other supernatural characters from the original will join the Sanderson sisters, Thackery, the talking black cat that seemingly served as a trial run for Sabrina The Teenage Witch’s Salem, won’t be one of them.
Jason Marsden, the actor who voiced Thackery in the 1993 original, implied on Instagram Stories that he would not be in the new film. “Looks awesome!” Marsden captioned a shot from the trailer on Stories. “That cat better be female.”