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‘The Blair Witch Project’ Being Developed into a Series

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While it may look as if the Blair Witch was killed by an awful box office flop last September, she’s still looking for new ways to haunt the woods in Maryland.

Movie podcast Diminishing Returns interviewed Eduardo Sanchez, co-director of the original 1999 The Blair Witch Project, who revealed that the Witch isn’t dead yet.

“For us, it’s a very natural thing to go and say, ‘Hey, let’s do a frickin’ Blair Witch show,'” Sanchez stated on the podcast. “You can say it’s from the original creators and we can bring in a whole bunch of interesting directors to direct episodes.”

When asked if it would be an anthology series, a prequel, or even found-footage, Sanchez was cryptic.

“Well, you know, I can’t really discuss,” he stated. “I think that the idea of a Blair Witch anthology has always been very – just a really interesting thing. You’re close. You’re in the ballpark. You know, and I think it might be one of those things that might be – you know – the more you think about it, you’re like, ‘That might be the perfect… a TV show.’ You know? So, we’ll see what happens, but I think that’s the next big thing for Blair Witch. Probably TV.”

While Sanchez reveals that he no longer owns the rights and that it’s at the mercy of Lionsgate, we hear that the theatrical flop of Adam Wingard’s Blair Witch last year wasn’t nearly as bad as it looked. In fact, it was highly profitable for Lionsgate who had pre-sold the film to various territories worldwide. So, while another theatrical release may be out of the cards, a television series seems like the most logical evolution for the franchise.

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Emily Mortimer, Manny Jacinto, and Thomasin McKenzie Join ‘Fallout’ Season Three

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Emily Mortimer in Relic

Today, Prime Video announced that Emily Mortimer (Relic), Manny Jacinto (The Acolyte), and Thomasin McKenzie (Victorian Psycho, Eileen) have joined the cast of Season Three of Fallout

The hit series begins production on its third season this month in Los Angeles.

The series based on the video games tellsthe story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

The series stars Ella Purnell (YellowjacketsSweetpea), Aaron Moten (EmancipationFather Stu), Walton Goggins (The White LotusThe Righteous Gemstones), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Frances Turner (The Boys), Annabel O’Hagan (Rent Free), and Dave Register (FBI).  

Aaron Paul (Anything But Ghosts) has also joined the cast for Season Three, as previously announced.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners. 

Catch up on both seasons ahead of Season Three on Prime Video now.

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