Blair Witch 3 Under Way?

The Blair Witch Project, a movie that defined a generation or complete cobblers? Whichever side of the fence you stand when it comes to The Blair Witch Project, it’s undeniable that the film broke new ground in indie cinema and Hollywood alike.

Released in 1999 and filmed with less than $100,000 in the pot, The Blair Witch project took the world by storm in the months building to it’s release. Why? Because it took viral marketing by the horns and made it it’s own.

Message boards were alight with legends of the Blair Witch, sites sprung up all over the Internet – all cleverly masterminded by Eduardo Sanchez who, along with Daniel Myrick, wrote and directed Blair Witch – and all believed by an unsuspecting public.

Now ten years on, the makers of the original Blair Witch are working on a sequel, and they took the time to speak exclusively to the BBC about it:

Sanchez admits they are still undecided how to proceed with the project, whether to stick with the grittiness of the first film, or make a more polished and more obviously expensive sequel.

“Ideally, each Blair Witch film would be a completely different kind of movie,”, he says. “We’ve thought about doing a film that takes place in the late 1700s and looks like a [Stanley] Kubrick movie with gritty looking people and lighting.

“But now, we’re thinking about going back and and seeing what happened directly after the first film finished.

“I think it will have some kind of video element in it, but it won’t be a first person hand-held movie.”

With the fate of the original characters an unsolved mystery, it is unlikely the actors will also return for the film.

Myrick says: “I talk to Josh quite regularly and Mike Williams as well. Actually, he had a role in my last movie.

“Heather, I haven’t seen in years. The last I heard, she had got out of the business and gone up north and is living on a ranch somewhere.

“Maybe she’s still traumatised,” he adds.

With the bitter taste of The Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 still fresh in my mouth, I’m uncertain whether the creators of the legend can pull of this resurrection. Blair Witch 2 was largely taken out of their hands and as a result what we got was one big fat obvious attempt to cash in on what (at the time) was a cultural phenomenon – could Sanches and Myrick pull the series back from that?

Here’s hoping!

Source: BBC

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