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‘The Craft’ Remake Goes On a ‘Honeymoon’
Andrew Fleming’s 1996 The Craft is awesome. It was the light that shined in the middle of a decade riddled with crap like Urban Legend and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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.
Even today the film holds up, and is one that I consider to be an all-time great. And while the thought of a remake makes my stomach churn, I can’t help but think a modern take on this would play gangbusters with a younger crowd.
The Craft was to be remade back in 2006, and died in 2008. Using witchcraft, it’s been resurrected.
Sony has tapped up-and-coming horror filmmaker Leigh Janiak to write and direct the new version, says THR, who adds that Janiak will co-write the script with Phil Graziadei, the co-scribe on her breakthrough movie Honeymoon.
Doug Wick, who was one of Craft‘s original producers, is back in the same capacity, this time producing with Lucy Fisher.
Janiak is also helming an episode of “Scream” for MTV.
The Broadway stage production of Paranormal Activity can’t wait to scare audiences and is acting accordingly; Deadline reports that the opening date has been bumped up several weeks.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage is coming to Broadway for a limited 20-week engagement. The first preview performance scheduled for Friday, August 14, at the August Wilson Theatre, remains in place. Now the play will officially open on Tuesday, August 25, moving up from its initial September 15 launch date.
The official synopsis: “James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.”
Directed by Felix Barrett and written by playwright Levi Holloway, the stage show weaves “an original story inspired by the film franchise, Paranormal Activity reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.”
The Broadway production will follow a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 through July 30.
Both the Broadway and Boston casts will feature Cher Álvarez, Travis A. Knight, Shannon Cochran, and Andrea Syglowski. Understudies will be Caron Buinis, Caroline Hendricks, and Michael Holding.
Álvarez will play Lou, and Knight plays James.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage premiered at the Leeds Playhouse in the UK before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, where it received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination this year for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Original Paranormal Activity stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat attended the Paranormal Activity play last year, and they both shared their thoughts over on Instagram.
Katie Featherston raved, “What a truly fun night seeing the new Paranormal Activity at the Ahmanson Theatre! We had a blast- so scary and so fun. The design and production was amazing and the cast did a fantastic job. Congrats to all involved!”
There’s also a brand new movie on the way.
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