Overview
- Industry reports say Dylan Clark has been tapped to helm a new take on The Blair Witch Project, with the scoop originating from DanielRPK and echoed by Dread Central and Dark Horizons, though Lionsgate and Blumhouse have not announced it.
- The project sits within a multi-film pact that tasks Blumhouse with reimagining horror titles from Lionsgate’s library, with Blair Witch positioned as an early priority in that slate.
- Clark’s profile has risen off his viral short Portrait of God, which Universal set for a feature with producers Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw.
- The 1999 Blair Witch film cost about $35,000 and earned $249 million worldwide, helping launch the found-footage boom and leading to a 2001 sequel and a 2016 reboot.
- If the hire becomes official, the studios could use this reboot to seed a new run of Blair Witch movies, a path genre outlets say is under consideration.