Blair Witch Director Still Wants Another Sequel

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Eduardo Sanchez Updates Return of the 'Blair Witch'

Friday, September 16, 2011

Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick broke onto the scene back in 1999 when Artisan released The Blair Witch Project unto the world. Banking nearly $250 million worldwide boxoffice, a sequel was quickly rushed into production that failed to make it past $50 million across the globe. Since then, rumors of a third film have freely floating out of the director's mouths.

Following the premiere of Lovely Molly, Bloody Disgusting's Fred Topel caught up with Sanchez who revealed new info on the long-gestured sequel that will bring back many of the original film's actors. The real question is: with found footage being the new "cool," why the hell hasn't Lionsgate pushed this guy off the ground? Maybe this is the year...

In Sanchez's ouvre, the 'Blair Witch' creator confirmed he is ready to make a third film to bring the series back from 'Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.' "It's completely up to Lionsgate," Sanchez said. "Dan and I are ready to do it. We've been toying around with a sequel idea that we really like. It's just a matter of getting our schedules in line and having Lionsgate sign off on the idea. We've been ready to do a 'Blair Witch' movie for a long time. We're as close as we've ever been to making it happen but it's still not a guaranteed thing."

Sanchez and Myrick's idea would basically ignore the Joe Berlinger sequel. "I actually liked the sequel but at the same time it exists in a world outside of the movie. So if we want to do a sequel to 'Blair Witch Project,' we have to stay in that world, which 'Book of Shadows' didn't stay in that world. 'Book of Shadows' created a different world. It's like if the sequel to 'Jaws' started with shots of people lined up to see 'Jaws' in the movie theater. For 'Book of Shadows' it worked in a certain way but to me my biggest gripe with Artisan was you shouldn't have called it 'Blair Witch 2.' It would've been fine to call it Blair Witch Chronicles. It wasn't really a sequel to our movie. so it would be a direct sequel to our film living in that mythology of Burkittsville, being possessed, haunted by something."

Now that found footage is pass?, a 'Blair Witch 3' would update the storytelling by evolving from the "film student in the woods" style of the original. "Right now, the idea has no first person in it at all, but we'll see," Sanchez said. "There's always room for new ideas to come in."

Expect Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams to make a comeback too, though not as the leads. "The plan is to have them [back]," Sanchez revealed. "They're probably not going to be the main characters but they're definitely characters in the sequel."

That means the sequel may answer questions about the original's ambiguous ending. It certainly can't be a flashback if the actors are all 10 years older now. "No, it's not."

Source: Bloody Disgusting

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No thanks. Found footage will die a slow death within the next year or so.

So basically shit ain't happening? Call me when this is actually greenlit.

Jasonicus, again, i agree w/ you! lol. i'm SO ready for the found footage thing to die forever.

Blair Witch should have had an ending like The Last Exorcism.

"Found footage" was cool when cannible holocaust came out but now anymore it's just plain stupid! Thank you blair witch!

I actually didn't care much for Blair Witch the first time I watched it like ten years ago. I saw it again recently, as far as found footage movies go it's pretty good actually. I enjoyed it the second time.

found footage will always get attention...it's thrilling for most idiots to think it's real, even if realizing the truth is inevitable. ppl don't care. they only want a 30-second thrill before they forget about it and move on anyway.

I love the Blair Witch Project and I really hope we get a sequel from the creators of the original.

Blair Witch was the first scary movie I was allowed to see in theaters, so it has a special place in my heart. Found footage isn't going anywhere...ppl will always buy in if there's even a small chance it's real.

The thing is though aren't most of the original actors in their late 30/early 40's by now? I mean are they going to make them up to like they are in there 20's like part 1? or will all that time have passed to the present? I hope this does get greenlit. I'm interested to see what they do with it. I enjoyed part 1 and part 2 for being it's own animal.

Ugh, let it die already. No more "found footage" films. Enough is enough.

fucking stoked love the blair witch make this happen

I still don't understand why so many people put down that film. I loved it. And it was the first of it's kind to make a big impact so you have to give it some credit for being very original. As for another, I'm okay with that as long as it's completely done by the original creators. The feature film sequel was interesting but a not a worthy sequel to this film. I would like to see more. And even though we all know it's not real, it's entertaining to pretend that it is and just enjoy the ride. Isn't that what an imagination is all about? Some things don't have to be so so practical.

Agreed: the found footage style of horror film isn't going away anytime soon. Like others have said, we, the moviegoers, love the tiny chance that what we're watching could have happened. Hell, it's one of the reasons the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre held such appeal for so many years: until the filmmakers actually admitted it, people believed it was a true story. I still folks today who think it really happened, lol. As for Blair Witch, the original was an awesome comedy for being an overhyped horror film. The sequel I actually enjoyed, it was one of my first meta experiences in a horror film alongside Scream. Still quite watchable even today. So yeah, bring on a third movie, it can't be any worse than Paranormal Activity.

I'm in! The original is a CLASSIC.

I like what they say in the article Blair Witch2 was great but not number 2, I'd like to see more from the History they created in the original marketing (the documentary on DVD, think it was made fo Discovery Channel or something) has great stories.... Infact this would make a great tv Shia lots of stories based on the Blair Witch Legacy... Someone go pitch that, I'd watch....

Honestly the only found footage film I have liked out of all of them is Troll Hunter. Best. Foreign. Film. Ever. I was ok with Cloverfield, but the monster was disappointing.

This just made my day!!!! Blair witch 1 and 2 were awesome!

Uh, nobody is interested.

Seems to me there are some people in this thread who are interested, crossbones. Learn to read. As for "found footage," I'm a sucker for it. It's not going anywhere. it's one style within a genre that has many. If you don't like it do your blood pressure a favor and watch something else. Horror fans are such pricks. Christ on a cracker...

I love the original Blair Witch Project. As for Book Of Shadows, I want My money back. Id stick that piece of crap alongside Exorcist 2 The Heretic and House 2 The Second Story. Im just curious how there going to put Heather, Mike, and Josh into this sequal. I guess thell make it work.

Id throw out "3D" (again) before "found footage" films. Theyre being abused and shitily done by amateur directors left and right because their cheap equipment makes it obviously easy and one zone a poor filmmaker could "work", but some of them , a few , are some damned good horror films. Fuck BLAIR WITCH though. Its one of those FF films that bugs the SHIT out of me.

It cant be as bad as Book Of Shadows. Still I like most of you are over found footage, so I wont be getting in line to see this.

I love found footage like PA and Blair Witch.. movies that are effective... I just ignore the pretenders. I agree only partly on what some of you mean. "shitty" found footage should die but some of them really work well IMO.

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