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Yes, Blumhouse is Remaking ‘The Craft’
There’s news spreading like wildfire that the forthcoming remake of The Craft is being produced by Blumhouse. This is true and there’s also a new director, as reported below. Production Weekly shared a fresh listing for The Craft in last week’s edition, which is the source of the news.
We learned three years ago that Honeymoon director Leigh Janiak’s “remake” was set to be a 20-years-later sequel rather than a new take on the same story we already saw back in 1996; from what we gathered, it was to center on a new group of women discovering the power of magic.
Janiak is no longer attached to direct as we’ve just reported that Zoe Lister-Jones will be writing and directing the fresh take.
Two years ago, Daniel Casey was tapped to rewrite Janiak’s The Craft. The previous version of the script was penned by Janiak and Phil Graziadei.
Andrew Fleming directed The Craft, which starred Robin Tunney as a teenage girl who befriends a group of budding witches played by Neve Campbell, Fairuza Balk and Rachel True.
Updated March 26, 2019 @ 3:39PM with writer and director.
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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