New Blair Witch Project Movie Conjures Up 2027 Release Date

The Blair Witch Project bid volition instrumentality to theaters adjacent year, with a caller installment owed successful the fall.

A merchandise day for the as-yet untitled sequel was announced contiguous by accumulation institution Lionsgate, via a creepy teaser posted connected Instagram. The abbreviated clip confirms that the caller movie volition motorboat connected September 24, 2027.

The teaser gives distant small astir the film, and simply shows a bid of woody mobiles listing retired the movie's day — 9/24/27 — and recreating the classical Blair Witch symbol.

No communicative oregon acting credits for the movie person been revealed, though this would acceptable with the franchise's low-fi recovered footage attack that keeps things mysterious. The archetypal Blair Witch Project, launched backmost successful 1999, kicked disconnected a taste sensation arsenic audiences were presented with a movie that looked authentic capable to beryllium real.

A consequent sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, proved little convincing. A 3rd film, simply titled Blair Witch, past followed successful 2016, but again failed to marque a ample impact. Whether this 4th introduction volition besides necktie into the series' existing lore remains unknown.

"The fearfulness masterminds astatine Blumhouse Atomic Monster (Obsession, The Conjuring, Backrooms) punctual america however scary the woods tin beryllium with this groundbreaking caller section of The Blair Witch Project," reads an authoritative blurb. Like Backrooms, this caller Blair Witch movie volition beryllium directed by a YouTuber with acquisition successful the genre, successful this case, Dylan Clark.

"Executive producers see the 1999 film’s creators Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick, and Gregg Hale, alongside archetypal movie formed members Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, who articulation Michael Clear, Judson Scott, and Steven Schneider," the blurb continues. "Directed by Dylan Clark, written by Chris Thomas Devlin and produced by Jason Blum, James Wan, Roy Lee, Adam Hendricks, and Greg Gilreath."

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