{"id":552000,"date":"2026-06-24T17:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/552000\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:02:29","slug":"the-blair-witch-project-reboot-headed-to-theaters-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/552000\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Blair Witch Project’ Reboot Headed to Theaters in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn 1999, The Blair Witch Project felt terrifying because of the \u201cfound footage\u201d from a missing film crew with no smartphones to help when bad things happened in the woods. The movie\u2019s producers will attempt to recontextualize and reboot that horror<\/a> for the modern age when a new chapter of the franchise opens on Sept. 24, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey haven\u2019t yet disclosed a plot or how such a movie would work (would something mystical appear on your TikTok FYP with the hashtag #TheBlairWitchChallenge?), but a teaser from Lionsgate on Instagram<\/a> suggests that any hapless witch victims would have access to making digital video look like a VHS played on a VCR with tracking issues. Lionsgate honcho Adam Fogelson previously said<\/a> the reboot would be \u201ca new vision for Blair Witch that will reintroduce this horror classic for a new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDylan Clark, whose credits include a number of shorts and an episode of the horror series Bloody Bites, will direct the film. Chris Thomas Devlin, who penned the screenplay for the 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot and Cobweb, wrote the script, though The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> says Devlin is rewriting it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Blair Witch Project is one of the films that got me into filmmaking,\u201d Clark wrote on Instagram<\/a> in May. \u201cTo have the opportunity to step into that world with some of the people responsible for its creation is an absolute dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJoshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, stars of the 1999 movie, are acting as executive producers alongside Daniel Myrick and Eduardo S\u00e1nchez, who co-directed the original film. Gregg Hale who co-produced the original is also producing this one.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe original Blair Witch was a surprise hit, earning $248 million at the box office for a film that cost $35,000 to make. An immediate hit, it launched a franchise that included books, comic books, video games, and countless parodies. A glossy sequel in 2000, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, more than recouped its cost at the box office but was a critical disappointment, and another sequel, Blair Witch (2016), got mixed reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original Blair Witch Project ranked Number 12<\/a> on Rolling Stone\u2019s list of the 101 Best Horror Movies of All Time. \u201cThe shaky camera movements, the grainy images, the grippingly unpolished performances:\u00a0The Blair Witch Project\u00a0made you feel that something terrible could happen at any moment \u2014 and come at you from any direction,\u201d the magazine said at the time.<\/p>\n