Lionsgate’s The Blair Witch Project reboot, which was one of the company’s top international pre-sales titles in Cannes last month, will open in North America on September 24, 2027.
Director Dylan Clark and producer Blumhouse Atomic Monster announced the news on their social accounts on Tuesday morning.
Clark has built up a YouTube following through his horror shorts and will direct from his rewrite of an original screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin. Sources at the studio have previously said the project brings “the full mythology and legacy of the franchise to a new generation of storytelling”.
Jason Blum, who served as executive producer on the $330m-plus global box-office smash Obsession, is producing with James Wan, Roy Lee, Adam Hendricks, and Greg Gilreath.
Executive producers include Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick – who co-directed the 1999 hit – and Gregg Hale, alongside original film cast members Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, who join Michael Clear, Judson Scott, and Steven Schneider.
The 1999 original remains a pioneering found-footage horror film about an ill-fated documentary crew that sets out to investigate the folklore surrounding a witch believed to inhabit the Maryland woods.
Made for less than $60,000 and distributed in the US through Artisan Entertainment, the film grossed $248m worldwide and remains one of the all-time great independent success stories. The film spawned a 2000 sequel and a 2016 reboot, which earned approximately $47m and $45m worldwide, respectively.
Clark recently signed with Universal to adapt his horror short Portrait Of God and will team up with producers Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele on that project. He is also writing and will direct an adaptation of his short film Story Time, with Zak Olkewicz and LD Entertainment producing.
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