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.
