If you go down to the woods today…
It looks like the Blair Witch is about to awaken once more as Blumhouse has promised to plunder the mythology of the 25-year-old franchise.
The fourth movie in the series will be produced once again by Roy Lee who produced 2016’s Blair Witch and will kick off Blumhouse’s reimagining of Lionsgate classic horrors.
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Lee said: “I have been incredibly fortunate to work with Jason [Blum] many times over the years. We forged a strong relationship on The Purge when I was at Universal, and we launched STX with his film The Gift. There is no one better at this genre than the team at Blumhouse.
“We are thrilled to kick this partnership off with a new vision for Blair Witch that will reintroduce this horror classic for a new generation. We couldn’t be more pleased to be working with them on this and other projects we look forward to revealing soon.”
Blum said of the project: “I’m a huge admirer of The Blair Witch Project, which brought the idea of found footage horror to mainstream audiences and became a true cultural phenomenon. I don’t think there would have been a Paranormal Activity had there not first been a Blair Witch, so this feels like a truly special opportunity and I’m excited to see where it leads.”
Look, they can make as many of these movies as they want but, three movies in so far and as someone who was there in 1999 when the original movie came out and took the world by story with it’s is it/isn’t it real marketing, I can promise you that nothing will ever come close to that again.
That said, the mythology behind the Blair Witch is a rich one with a lot of great opportunities to be explored and, as long as it’s done well, I’ll be happy to return to the woods in Burkittsville to see what evil lies waiting.
Thoughts? Are you open to more Blair Witch? Let me know…
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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