Short filmmaker Dylan Clark has reportedly been slated to direct a remake of the iconic 1999 indie supernatural horror sensation “The Blair Witch Project”.
Word came almost two years ago, exactly, that Lionsgate and Blumhouse signed up for a multi-film deal with a new take on “Blair Witch” as one of its earliest projects.
The first film was made for just $35,000 and would go on to gross $249 million globally. That success spawned a sequel in 2001 and a bigger budget reboot in 2016. The success kick-started the found-footage movie boom.
Now, DanielRPK has broken the report of Clark’s hiring for the gig with Dread Central subsequently confirming it.
In December, it was announced that Clark’s viral horror short “Portrait of God” is set to be adapted into a feature film by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures and Jordan Peele’s Monkey Paw for Universal Pictures.
That short follows a young religious woman preparing a presentation on a portrait that looks completely black to almost all – but some report seeing a person in the darkness, an entity that’s not benevolent.
