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‘The Blair Witch Project’ Reboot Plot Details Revealed
While an official synopsis for the Blair Witch Project reboot is being kept under wraps, the first plot details have surfaced.
According to Deadline, “it will deal with a family that goes on a camping trip but goes missing one by one after they hear strange noises in the forest.”
Not a whole lot to go on, but it’s a start. Stay tuned for more information as we learn it.
Dylan Clark (Portrait of God) is set to direct the new take on the seminal found footage horror from a script he’s rewriting from Chris Devlin.
Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Atomic Monster‘s James Wan are producing with Roy Lee and Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath.
Original Blair Witch Project filmmakers Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick, producer Gregg Hale, and stars Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams will executive produce alongside Steven Schneider, Michael Clear, and Judson Scott.
“It’s not a ‘remake,'” Williams recently teased of the project. “You just wait.”
Lionsgate is lining up filming for the fall with a reported budget in the $10 million range.
1999’s The Blair Witch Project followed three film students who vanish in the Maryland woods while shooting a documentary on a local legend, leaving only their footage behind. Produced for around $60,000, it earned $248.6 million globally.
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster revealing at an event that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
That’s putting it mildly, eh?!
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