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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Blumhouse will beryllium launching income astatine nan Cannes marketplace connected their reboot of scary franchise sensation The Blair Witch Project.
We tin corroborate online reports from earlier this twelvemonth that up-and-coming scary head Dylan Clark has been group to helm nan caller “imagining”.
Lionsgate has had this loop successful nan useful for a fewer years and it now has coagulated impetus. We understand filming is being lined up for autumn and perceive fund is successful nan $10M range. Plot specifications stay nether wraps.
Chris Devlin wrote nan original screenplay, pinch a existent rewrite by Clark. Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Blumhouse’s Jason Blum are teaming pinch shaper Roy Lee to produce. Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath are producing for Divide/Conquer. Current scheme is for Lionsgate to clasp home and UK distribution rights.
As revealed by THR conscionable now, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, 2 of nan stars of nan original 1999 movie, arsenic good arsenic nan original filmmakers—Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick, and Gregg Hale—are recently aboard nan task arsenic executive producers. This marks a alteration from nan erstwhile 2 sequels successful nan franchise which didn’t person overmuch input from nan original creatives.
Steven Schneider is an executive producer, arsenic are Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Atomic Monster, pinch Alayna Glasthal overseeing for nan company. Scott O’Brien and Pavan Kalidindi are overseeing nan task for Lionsgate. Phil Strina negotiated nan Lionsgate woody connected behalf of nan studio.
Clark is nan young genre filmmaker who has gained a ample pursuing successful nan YouTube scary space. He precocious signed connected pinch Universal to accommodate his scary short Portrait of God, pinch Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele producing. He is besides penning to nonstop an adjustment of his short movie Story Time, pinch Zak Olkewicz and LD Entertainment producing.
Released successful ’99, low-budget scary The Blair Witch Project followed 3 movie students who vanished successful a wood aft filming a documentary astir a witch legend, leaving only their recovered footage behind. The movie took successful $248M world and became 1 of nan astir successful and influential scary movies ever. Two sequels person been released since then, astir precocious successful 2016. Neither took disconnected for illustration nan original but some still took adjacent to $50M astatine nan container office.
Lionsgate’s Cannes slate will besides see nan sequel to container agency deed The Housemaid. The 2nd instalment is owed to prima Sydney Sweeney and Kirsten Dunst. Paul Feig is returning to nonstop pinch shaper Todd Lieberman besides back.
In The Housemaid’s Secret, Millie (Sweeney) returns, taking a occupation keeping location for a female she’s ne'er allowed to spot — only to observe nan truth down nan locked doorway that threatens to expose secrets acold darker than her own. It’s based connected McFadden’s 2023 sequel novel.
Dylan Clark is repped by 3 Arts, UTA and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
