Lionsgate‘s forthcoming new chapter for The Blair Witch Mission is blazing a path towards its launch.
The presently untitled film is ready for theatrical launch from Lionsgate on Sept. 24, 2027, the studio introduced Tuesday. The information was shared to social media with a picture that conjured up the franchise’s world. Plot particulars and forged data haven’t but been revealed.
Dylan Clark is ready to helm a brand new tackle the horror property from a script by Chris Thomas Devlin that the director is rewriting. Moreover, The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, who starred within the authentic 1999 found-footage hit, will function government producers alongside the primary film’s directing staff of Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick and Gregg Hale.
In 2024, Lionsgate and Blumhouse introduced at CinemaCon that a new feature version of The Blair Witch Mission was within the works via the businesses’ multi-film deal that sees Blumhouse reimagine Lionsgate’s horror classics. Whereas talking at CinemaCon, Lionsgate movie boss Adam Fogelson teased “a new vision for Blair Witch that will reintroduce this horror classic for a new generation.”
The Blair Witch Mission was made for a paltry $35,000 (earlier than advertising prices) and have become an instantaneous sensation when it debuted on the Sundance Movie Competition in January 1999. Artisan Leisure purchased the indie function and launched it theatrically that June, with the story centering on three movie college students who disappear within the woods after getting down to shoot a documentary concerning the Blair Witch. Amassing $248 million on the world field workplace ($492 million right now), it was a summer time phenomenon and one of many 12 months’s 10 highest-grossing titles, to not point out probably the most worthwhile motion pictures ever made.
Blumhouse Atomic Monster‘s Jason Blum and James Wan will serve as the reboot’s producers alongside Roy Lee. Additionally producing are Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath for Divide/Conquer. Government producing are Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Blumhouse Atomic Monster, with Alayna Glasthal overseeing for the corporate. Scott O’Brien and Pavan Kalidindi are overseeing the movie for Lionsgate, whereas Phil Strina negotiated the deal on behalf of the studio. Steven Schneider government produces.
