Friday, October 2, 2009
By: Jeff Otto
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This year The BLAIR WITCH PROJECT celebrates it’s tenth anniversary. To pay homage, Bloody-Disgusting brought you a retrospective of the influence BLAIR had on the industry. This week we spoke to co-directors Ed Sanchez and Dan Myrick to get their thoughts on BLAIR’s influence. We’ll have that story for you next week, but today we wanted to bring you up to speed on the latest BLAIR WITCH sequel news. I know, I know, we’ve been hearing about a supposed sequel all decade, but this time it does sound like Sanchez and Myrick are closer than ever, at least to finally getting a straight answer out of Lionsgate.
"Between Dan and me and the Haxan guys that did the original BLAIR WITCH, we are about as far along on a sequel idea as we’ve ever been," Sanchez told Bloody-Disgusting. "This is the first idea that Dan and I have really latched onto that we thought, ‘It would be cool.’ It’s a completely different kind of film, but we think it’s in the original spirit of the first one."
"In the next couple of weeks, something should happen; either a yes or a no or a maybe," Sanchez continues with a laugh. "I don’t know how we’re going to release the story or whatever, but something’s probably going to happen by the end of the year where we’ll either say, ‘No, it’s not going to happen’ or hopefully, ‘Yes, it’s gonna happen.’ But the news is coming soon."
"We’ve been working on an idea and it’s a concept that we like a lot," adds Myrick. "I can’t say anything about it now. Ed and I feel that the timing is right and enough time has gone by that the backlash to BLAIR WITCH has kind of subsided and a new generation of kids are out to embrace a BLAIR WITCH franchise on the merits of the movie itself rather than it trying to live up or be what the first film was, which it never will be. Our hope is that the sequel will stay within the mythology that we created in the first film and stand on its own two feet; just be a good, cool, thoughtful scary movie that resurrects a franchise that we feel very close to. Hopefully Lionsgate will agree and want to move forward on it."
The duo is tight-lipped as to the specifics of what this BLAIR sequel would be about except to say that it will be a sequel rather than the long-rumored prequel. "Everybody that I’ve talked to wants the prequel, that story of the witch," says Sanchez. "We still want to make that, but the powers that be will not let that happen right now. If we do the sequel and it makes some money and there’s motivation to do another one, then maybe we can push the prequel a little bit."
"There’s a lot of episodes throughout the history of BLAIR WITCH and even stuff that could be portrayed in the future that you could explore," says Myrick. "This is the devil’s triangle in the woods, so anything can happen. If it’s approached in the right way and the audience is given due credit for being thinking individuals, then this could be a cool franchise that delves into a lot of the mythology that has been swirling around this phenomena for years."
In the meantime, Sanchez is working on a new project called POSSESSION with writing partner Jamie Nash and promoting SEVENTH MOON, which hits DVD and Blu-ray on October 6th and stars Amy Smart. "It’s about this honeymooning couple that goes to China during this time called the seventh lunar month," says Sanchez. "[It’s] when the mysterious freaky kind of spiritual things happen in China. The legend is that Buddha opens up the gates of hell and all the spirits come out for one night. The couple is actually out on that night and bad things start to happen. It’s a creepy film that’s gotten some really good reaction. Unfortunately we couldn’t get any theatrical out of it, but we’re getting a really good Blu-ray and DVD release from Ghost House Pictures, Raimi’s company. We’re looking forward to getting it out there."
Stay tuned next week for our continuing salute to BLAIR’s tenth anniversary when co-directors Ed Sanchez and Dan Myrick discuss the films influenced by the famous witch.
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FIRST! a sequel would be excellent :-) |
Bring it! Been waiting for this for years. I loved all the hype around the first one and frankly this would add some life to the currently slow-as-a-snails-pace horror films goin on now. |
Kane, you're a dork.
As far as a sequel, give me a fucking break. |
Great news. The Blair Witch was an original and tense movie experience. Look how many movies have come out since using the hand held camera idea. It had a obvious influence. |
3 idiots in woods filming trees, some wack job hick living in a shed killing people. Sounds like a job for Rob Zombie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is with the first shit anyway? That sad of life got to click on every thread to write first?? To bad you'll be LAST to ever get laid. |
i loved the blair witch project and it is one of my fav movies of all time not to mention one of the few to really get under my skin. id love a true sequel to the original movie and not that "other" sequel that was made. bring on blair witch 2!!! (a real one) |
I hope that this is the real Blair Witch 2. The sequel they made a couple of years back was sheer crap. The original is still the only movie that will scare me no matter how many times I watch it! Let's get a good one out! |
I think they should have waited until they had recieved the greenlight and it was official before they opened their big mouths. I bet you we won't get any announcement and in another three years there will be more "talk" of a sequel. If you people don't want to do it then just fucking say it, stop with all these damn games. |
Bring on the sequel, because I'm sure Paranormal Activity will still be better than this alleged sequel...just saw paranormal activity last nite & I'm sure no ghost movie would ever top it...so let's hope this sequel doesn't take us back to the woods for us to stare @ sticks and rocks and boogers (thanks to heather). |
Why bother with a sequel? It had one, and no one cared enough to see it. 10 years later, still no one cares. |
Fuck yeah, Blair Witch is fucking golden. |
The original Blair Witch was a masterpiece on internet propanganda. Pure Genius how it was promoted as an actual documentary. It is a creepy little film and I think a lot of people who bag it miss the point of it. It cost 35 K to make and raked in 250 million world wide. The sequel was destroyed by the film company as Joe Berlinger has said a million times already . He basically made it as a metaphor for what happened to the West Memphis 3 in the utterly sublime and brilliant 'Paradise Lost' docos. Statanic Panic and the hyteria it creates was the core of tghe film, but instead it turned into a slasher movie because the studio were clueless. |
Wow, has it really been 10 years? I agree w/Itto Ogami, the original really was a masterpiece. |
sweet...i did love the original blair witch. |
this going to be good. The original movie still brings the chills at the end. The sequel was LOLS all over the place. I think it was a great comedy. ;) But a REAL sequel would be so nice. I been waiting ten years. Let's go!!!!! |
I love Blair Witch. I can still watch it and enjoy it. Prequel would be my first choice since they've already done a sequel. But it doesn't sound like it's gonna happen that way. |
It's Ogami Itto, not Itto Ogami. And I want a sequel to come out just to laugh at how horrible it will be. |
ha,... yeah well, i remember seeing this shit in the theaters, and when the lights came on after the ending everyone started booing and wanted their money back... no shit. lol. Ten years later, i'd STILL like my money back. |
i can not wait until the blair witch sequal |
I can't wait to see a Blair witch 3, I always liked the mytholigy of these movies,the mockumentary was great. I liked the sequel as well, though I can't figure out whether they were implying that the witch was just a figment of their imagination or she altered all of those surveilance tapes, I guess thats part of the mystery...but i love the idea of Blair Witch 3 and down the line a prequel would kick ass |
I like the Blair Witch but come on, stop giving it credit for inspiring these other movies, Cannibal Holocaust was the original that started it all. |
really? please -- let it go. one too many. |
What's the point?
They've left it too late, anyway. |
DJDeathwish is right...but I will give the blair witch project some credit cause i did like this one and the second one. |
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