If you happen to’re nonetheless hoping and praying for a 3rd Sister Act film, you are about to really feel extraordinarily blessed. On a latest episode of “The View,” star Whoopi Goldberg revealed that the long-gestating threequel continues to be taking place — and hopefully sooner relatively than later.
“You recognize we’re nonetheless going to do this film,” Goldberg informed her authentic “Sister Act” costar Jennifer Lewis when Lewis appeared on the Sept. 22 episode of “The View.” “I do every thing I can to work with [Lewis], as a result of she’s enjoyable.”
Again in 2020, Disney+ announced plans to develop the third Sister Act movie, reportedly with “Excessive College Musical: The Musical: The Collection” showrunner Tim Federle directing and Madhuri Shekar writing the script. Since then, nevertheless, updates on the movie have been just about nonexistent. In July 2022, Goldberg gave the primary replace shortly throughout an interview with Entertainment Tonight, revealing that she’s been pushing for the film to occur for a number of years now.
“I have been attempting to do that for six years,” she stated. “I used to be informed nobody was on this. It takes a minute for folks to understand they need to take their foot out of their mouth . . . It is coming. We gotta shoot it, but it surely’s taking place. You are by no means absolutely pleased with a script as a result of one of many stuff you discover is you wanna have the house to make an adjustment if you might want to. Typically what appears to be like proper on paper would not come out of your mouth the suitable means. It’s important to transfer it round just a little bit however I am very hopeful folks might be completely satisfied.”
Goldberg additionally gave Leisure Tonight a tiny tidbit about the place her iconic character, Deloris, might be after we rejoin her many years later.
“We did [the first and second movies] again to again, which is why I believe they’re actually nice. However now you want some house on it, and you might want to let [my character] develop up and change into an grownup which is what’s occurred. We’ll see. She was an grownup when she began, however she’s far more of an grownup now.”
On “The View,” Lewis and Goldberg additionally spent just a little time on air reminiscing in regards to the time they spent collectively engaged on the unique film, again in 1992. In truth, Lewis even recalled how she “taught” Goldberg methods to sing for the film’s huge musical numbers.
“I informed Whoopi, ‘Look, you simply get on this mirror with the 2 of us, and also you simply get a hairbrush, and fake that we’re 15 years outdated singing with Gladys Knight & the Pips,’ and Whoopi did it,” Lewis stated. “She sang that little booty off!”
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