As you’ll likely have expected from the streaming success of Disney+’s Hocus Pocus 2 late last year, we now know that Hocus Pocus 3 is going ahead.

The project was confirmed in a new New York Times profile of Disney live-action production chief Sean Bailey, released this weekend.

It’s not yet clear whether the threequel to the 1993 original would follow-up on the sequel’s new characters – having introduced Whitney Peak as Becca, Belissa Escobedo as Izzy, and Lilia Buckingham as Cassie – or introduce new ones. As Hocus Pocus 2 producer Adam Shankman hinted previously, the success of the 2022 film has created “a lot of excitement about potential spinoffs,” which suggests both sequels and spinoffs are on the table for the witchy franchise.

Screenwriter Jen D’Angelo also previously suggested to Variety that a potential sequel could showcase Omri Katz’s Max Dennison and Vinessa Shaw’s Allison Watts: “We tried so hard to get the original cast back for cameos and then it just kept not working out for one reason or the other,” stated D’Angelo. “But I’m hoping in Hocus Pocus 3, we’ll see Max and Alison living in California.”

And though it’s not been confirmed, it’s likely safe to assume that Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy will return as the Sanderson Sisters for Hocus Pocus 3.

Stay tuned for more information on the upcoming project as we learn it.