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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.
Brendan Fraser is back for the upcoming fourth installment in The Mummy franchise from directors Radio Silence, and Michael Johnston (Obsession) is now in talks to join him.
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know tonight that Michael Johnston is in “early talks” to join The Mummy 4, which will release in theaters on October 15, 2027 via Universal.
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah will reprise their iconic roles as Rick O’Connell, Evelyn O’Connell, and Jonathan Carnahan in the upcoming movie.
Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not, Scream 5-6) are directing from a script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill).
Plot details are being kept under wraps at this time, but the brand new sequel is expected to disregard the events of the third movie, in which Rachel Weisz did not appear.
“It’s just really beautiful and scary and sweeping, and it’s awesome,” Gillet teases. Bettinelli-Olpin adds that the film “has all of the heart and the character that you could hope for.”
A remake of the classic Universal monster movie that took an action-adventure approach, The Mummy was released in 1999 and grossed $417 million worldwide. It was followed by The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008.