Prolific horror studio Blumhouse is teaming with Lionsgate for a new "reimagining" of The Blair Witch Project, it was announced at CinemaCon today.
It's part of a new multi-picture pact that will have Blumhouse "reimagining horror classics from the Lionsgate library," per the announcement today. Blumhouse CEO Jason Blum will team with Roy Lee, who worked on 2016's Blair Witch, to produce, but no other details were revealed.
“I’m very grateful to (Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair) Adam (Fogelman) and the team at Lionsgate for letting us play in their sandbox. I’m a huge admirer of The Blair Witch Project, which brought the idea of found footage horror to mainstream audiences and became a true cultural phenomenon,” Blum said in a statement. “I don’t think there would have been a Paranormal Activity had there not first been a Blair Witch, so this feels like a truly special opportunity and I’m excited to see where it leads.”
Blumhouse is best known for producing reliably profitable horror movies on a tight budget, including the aforementioned Paranormal Activity franchise, Insidious, The Purge, Sinister, the rebooted Halloween trilogy, M3GAN, and Five Nights at Freddy's. Most recently, it worked with Lionsgate on last month's horror film Imaginary.
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