Whoopi Goldberg announced that the script toSister Act 3(as yet untitled), a legacy threequel to her 1992 and 1993 hits,Sister ActandSister Act 2: Back in the Habit, is ready to go. She also said that she wants Jimmy Fallon to show up.
Fans rejoiced whenDisneyannounced the third outing from theirSister Actfranchise, a beloved duology from the early 1990s that featured Goldberg as a Vegas lounge singer going undercover as a nun. However, it took almost three decades for the announcement to be made.
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Disney, seeking out original content for Disney Plus and hearing fan demand for another entry, has ordered up a third helping of Nunsense. Goldberg says the script is ready to go, and she wants a Fallon cameo if she can get it. She revealed the good news when she appeared on Fallon’sThe Tonight Show, and after her annunciation, cleverly asked Fallon if he’d like to appear in the movie when it gets made. Whoopi made mention of arecurring gag on the old Adam WestBatmanseries, in which Batman and Robin would climb a building and a guest star—think theAddams Familyor Jerry Lewis—would pop their head out of a window and ask them to keep it down. She then asked Fallon if he’d pop his head out inSister Act 3,and he replied, “Yes! Are you kidding me? To be inSister Act 3? Of course, I would do that, I would do anything for you."
TheSister Actmovies are about a Vegas lounge singer who goes undercover in a witness protection program to get away from her mobster boyfriend played by Harvey Keitel. She then returns to the convent that hid her to aid their students in a sort of musical take on the Edward James Olmos film,Stand and Deliver. Interest in a third film would spark now and again, but despite various cast members saying they’d come back, nothing was pursued by Disney, whose 1990s adult shingle, Touchstone Pictures, produced it. A thirdSister Actfits since Disney has gotten into the game of legacy sequels -theHocus PocusfilmsandSister Actmovies even share Kathy Najimy—and now that the script is done, it would appear that the project can start gathering steam and moving ahead.
Goldberg, once one of America’s darlings on the acting scene when she hit big in the 1980s with films likeThe Color Purple,Jumping Jack Flash, andGhost, while also starring as Guinan, the bartender/psychiatrist tothe crew onStar Trek: The Next Generation, has spent most of the last 15 years moderating the ABC’s current events shout-fest,The View. She’s returned to acting in recent years with a starring turn as Mother Abigail on CBS’s new adaptation ofThe Standand returning to herStar Trekrole onStar Trek: Picard.
Sister Act 3currently has no release date.Sister ActandSister Act 2: Back in the Habitcan be seen on Disney Plus.
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