Overview
- Lionsgate announced on Tuesday that the new The Blair Witch Project will open in theaters on Sept. 24, 2027 and teased the date with a short social- media video featuring the franchise’s stick-figure imagery.
- Dylan Clark, a filmmaker who rose on YouTube, is attached to direct from a script by Chris Thomas Devlin while Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster are producing.
- The original 1999 creators Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick, producer Gregg Hale, and original cast members Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams are listed as executive producers, and Heather Donahue has declined to participate.
- Plot, principal cast and the production schedule remain undisclosed, with Lionsgate describing the film as a “new vision” and positioning it as the first entry in a multi-picture slate of reimagined Lionsgate horror properties.
- The move reflects two industry trends: studios hiring online-native directors after recent YouTube-to-theater hits and Blumhouse partnering with Lionsgate to revive legacy horror IP, and it revives old cast compensation questions to watch as production progresses.