Horror classic The Blair Witch Project is being remade for a “new generation”

The film is directed by Dylan Clarkwho has gained popularity with his short horror films published on YouTube.

The corresponding producers of the new version are the writers and directors of the original film Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrickproducer Gregg Hale and those who played the male lead Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams.

Among other things, the news media of the film industry report on the matter Variety and Hollywood Reporter.

According to the production company, the purpose of the new version is to offer a “horror movie classic for a new generation”.

In the year The original premiered in 1999 The Blair Witch Project was made on a budget of $60,000, and the film grossed $248 million at the box office.

The film is about students who set out to shoot a documentary with a video camera based on a local story about a witch moving in the forest. The students disappear, and later the video footage they shot is found.

The film was marketed as a documentary based on true events, and the lead actors, who appeared under their own names, were banned from appearing on television so that the public would believe they had really disappeared.

The three actors who played the main roles initially did not receive compensation for the film, which became a huge success, until they sued the distribution company. They received $300,000 each.

Original the film inspired other horror filmmakers to make films that used “found footage”. The Blair Witch Project were also the first films to be purposefully marketed via the internet.

The film was made into a sequel Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 already in 2000. It received a lukewarm reception from critics, and in 2016 it did not premiere either Blair Witch achieved the success of the original.