As we told you last night, Blumhouse and Columbia Pictures are remaking 1996’s The Craft, and we’ve learned today that Zoe Lister-Jones will be writing and directing the fresh take.
Lister-Jones wrote, executive produced and starred in the Fox Searchlight feature, Lola Versus. She also co-wrote, produced and starred in the indie comedy Breaking Upwards and she wrote and directed the indie feature Band Aid, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. On the TV side, her comedy pilot Woman Up was recently greenlit at ABC. She wrote and is set to direct, in addition to executive producing via her Ms. Lister Films banner. In addition, she stars opposite Colin Hanks in Life in Pieces, set to return for its fourth season on CBS.
We learned three years ago that Honeymoon director Leigh Janiak was rebooting the ’96 film, and then Daniel Casey had been tapped to rewrite a script penned by Janiak and Phil Graziadei. It looks like the project is being freshly retooled with Lister-Jones writing a new script.
Producing are Jason Blum for Blumhouse and Red Wagon Entertainment, helmed by Academy Award-winning producer Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher. Executive producers are Andrew Fleming and Lucas Wiesendanger, from Red Wagon Entertainment.
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.
