The last we heard of The Craft remake, Leigh Janiak had been attached to write and direct the film. Since then, however, there has been a whole lot of silence, which is never good when the impending threat of a coven of witches is looming.

However, a fresh piece of news has broken courtesy of our good pal Chris over at HitFix, who spoke with the remake’s producer Douglas Wick to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary.

Wick said that the remake isn’t actually a remake but is instead more of a continuation of the original story, just 20 years later.

“I wouldn’t say that we wouldn’t so much call it a remake as a ‘twenty years later’. There will be callbacks to the original movie, so you will see there is a connection between what happened in the days of ‘The Craft,’ and how these young women come across this magic many years later,” Wick revealed.

Wick also spoke about the vision that Janiak and co-writer Phil Graziadei have in store for viewers, explaining:

“Here are some young women who once again discover the power of magic, and we explore their emotional lives, their wants, their fears, their longings, as they become empowered. So you know, the same way you use a war movie to explore the psyche of men, you get to create a heightened world to explore the psyche of these women. And so that seemed like an opportunity that was ripe and a way to make a movie that would be very much about now. And of course, part of that was just finding a talent that felt like enough of a real talent that you’d really be interested in her interpretation of this kind of story now, and of course Leigh is exactly that.”

The full interview can be found at the link above.

The 1996 The Craft starred Robin Tunney as a newcomer to a Catholic prep high school who falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls (played by Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True) who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.