Did Whoopi Goldberg Just Confirm "Sister Act 3" Is in the Works?
If you're still hoping and praying for a third Sister Act movie, you're about to feel extremely blessed. On a recent episode of "The View," star Whoopi Goldberg revealed that the long-gestating threequel is still happening - and hopefully sooner rather than later.
"You know we're still going to do that movie," Goldberg told her original "Sister Act" costar Jennifer Lewis when Lewis appeared on the Sept. 22 episode of "The View." "I do everything I can to work with [Lewis], because she's fun."
Back in 2020, Disney+ announced plans to develop the third Sister Act movie, reportedly with "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" showrunner Tim Federle directing and Madhuri Shekar writing the script. Since then, however, updates on the film have been pretty much nonexistent. In July 2022, Goldberg gave the first update in a while during an interview with Entertainment Tonight, revealing that she's been pushing for the movie to happen for several years now.
"I've been trying to do this for six years," she said. "I was told no one was interested in this. It takes a minute for people to realize they should take their foot out of their mouth . . . It's coming. We gotta shoot it, but it's happening. You're never fully happy with a script because one of the things you find is you wanna have the space to make an adjustment if you need to. Sometimes what looks right on paper doesn't come out of your mouth the right way. You have to move it around a little bit but I'm very hopeful people will be happy."
Goldberg also gave Entertainment Tonight a tiny tidbit about where her iconic character, Deloris, will be when we rejoin her decades later.
"We did [the first and second movies] back to back, which is why I think they are really great. But now you need some space on it, and you need to let [my character] grow up and become an adult which is what's happened. We'll see. She was an adult when she started, but she's much more of an adult now."
On "The View," Lewis and Goldberg also spent a little time on air reminiscing about the time they spent together working on the original movie, back in 1992. In fact, Lewis even recalled how she "taught" Goldberg how to sing for the movie's big musical numbers.
"I told Whoopi, 'Look, you just get in this mirror with the two of us, and you just get a hairbrush, and pretend that we're 15 years old singing with Gladys Knight & the Pips,' and Whoopi did it," Lewis said. "She sang that little booty off!"