“The Blair Witch Project”, the iconic 1999 horror film that became an international blockbuster despite being the very epitome of ‘low budget’, may be getting a sequel ten years after its worldwide cinema release. Of course, some may remember that the film has already had a sequel – 2000’s “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2” – that was critically mauled the world over.
The difference is, this new sequel is to be the brainchild of the people who made the first film, who had nothing to do with “Book of Shadows”, Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick, who wrote and directed the original picture but were, like the rest of the world, less than enamoured of the sequel. “We felt a little betrayed because we wanted to let the Blair Witch hype die down a little because it was so out of control and there was a bit of a backlash,” says Myrick. “But they wanted to strike while the iron was hot and they went ahead and made the movie for what we thought were all the wrong reasons.” Now however, after many years in the wilderness, the duo are planning a sequel all of their own. “We’re thinking about going back and seeing what happened directly after the first film finished,” Sanchez confirms. “I think it will have some kind of video element in it, but it won’t be a first person hand-held movie.”
The original movie went on to gross two hundred and fifty million dollars worldwide.
