Jason Blum is producing a brand new Blair Witch film, a collaboration between the producers personal Blumhouse and Lionsgate.
The mission was introduced at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, in accordance with articles from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. As of but, no plot particulars have but emerged or been introduced. That is the primary in a multi-film take care of Lionsgate, the place Blumhouse will get to take a crack at horror classics. Extra information about these collaborations is pending.
Blumhouse itself is greatest identified for turning large income on low cost horror motion pictures like Paranormal Exercise, The Purge, and Get Out. Lionsgate and Blumhouse additionally collectively produced the horror flick Imaginary, which launched this yr.
Blum will produce the film with Roy Lee, who additionally produced the 2016 sequel/reboot titled merely Blair Witch. Blum stated, “I’m very grateful to Adam [Fogelson] and the staff at Lionsgate for letting us play of their sandbox. I’m an enormous admirer of The Blair Witch Undertaking, which introduced the thought of discovered footage horror to mainstream audiences and have become a real cultural phenomenon. I don’t suppose there would have been a Paranormal Exercise had there not first been a Blair Witch, so this looks like a very particular alternative and I’m excited to see the place it leads.”
The Blair Witch Undertaking adopted three beginner filmmakers who enter the Black Hill forests in Maryland to movie a documentary in regards to the titular witch. The unique movie grossed $248 million on a manufacturing funds of $35,000 and broke open the floodgates for discovered footage horror. Each the unique sequel Ebook of Shadows and the 2016 reboot concern bigger teams of people that additionally try to courageous the Blair Witch’s wooded territory. There was additionally a Blair Witch online game from Bloober Staff in 2019.