The Blair Witch Undertaking is back again! Reboot of iconic 1999 film is underway from M3GAN and The Purge producer – 25 many years after identified footage film debuted

A reboot of legendary located footage horror The Blair Witch Venture has been introduced – 25 several years immediately after the unique movie debuted.

Producer Jason Blum from horror creation studios Blumhouse will revive the  franchise for a ‘new generation’ – subsequent the substantial globally good results of Blumhouse movies which include M3GAN, The Purge and Five Evenings at Freddys.

Plot details have not been revealed, but Lionsgate Movement Picture Team chair Adam Fogelson explained the movie marks a ‘new vision for Blair Witch that will reintroduce this horror basic for a new generation’ at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, per Assortment.

Blum explained: ‘I’m quite grateful to Adam and the crew at Lionsgate for letting us enjoy in their sandbox. I’m a large admirer of The Blair Witch Job, which brought the plan of discovered footage horror to mainstream audiences and grew to become a true cultural phenomenon.

‘I really do not assume there would have been a Paranormal Exercise experienced there not initially been a Blair Witch, so this feels like a definitely special opportunity and I’m enthusiastic to see wherever it potential customers.’

Fogelson additional: ‘I have been unbelievably privileged to get the job done with Jason quite a few instances more than the several years. We forged a solid relationship on The Purge when I was at Common, and we released STX with his film The Gift. 

‘There is no one improved at this genre than the team at Blumhouse. We couldn’t be a lot more delighted to be doing work with them on this and other assignments we search ahead to revealing before long.’

The Blair Witch Undertaking reboot will be the initial in a multi-photograph settlement with Blumhouse reimagining horror classics for Lionsgate. 

Blumhouse and Lionsgate have not long ago collaborated on thriller Imaginary which was produced past thirty day period. 

The Blair Witch Venture redefined horror flicks when it became a huge, unpredicted strike upon its release in 1999. 

The movie follows the disappearance of three pupil filmmakers in the woods in close proximity to Burkittsville, Maryland, although shooting a documentary on the community legend recognized as the Blair Witch. 

It starred Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard actively playing fictionalized versions of them selves. 

Designed on a tiny funds of $60,000, it turned one particular of the most productive impartial flicks of all time soon after raking in $248.6 million at the box office.

A pioneering promotional marketing campaign observed it turn out to be the initial broadly launched movie marketed primarily by net, with the film’s site boasting fake police reviews and newsreel-design interviews.

It was followed by Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 in 2000 which received unfavorable evaluations from critics and grossed a globally total of $47.7 million. 

In 2016  Blair Witch was unveiled which follows John, the brother of Heather Donahue.

He decides to head back to Burkittsville, nevertheless this time the movie was really shot in Canada in its place of Maryland, following identifying footage from the authentic film.

Talking to a friend, he claims: ‘The guy who uploaded this video says its from a tape he located in the Black Hills woods… I assume that may well be my sister.

And when his female mate displays she is skeptical about the quickly–to-be fateful strategy of investigating her disappearance

‘If there is any possibility that I can find out what transpired to her I will need to try out.’

So however yet again, a Donahue sibling ropes in a group of higher education students to undertaking when into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland, the house of the Blair Witch legend.

In truth numerous imagine her Heather’s disappearance 15 decades past is connected to the sinister urban myth, which is unfortunately only far too correct in the movie.