I was honestly never a big fan of The Blair Witch Project. I did, however like the way the first film was done. Very few movies did that first person style before it and it has definitely helped spawn the trend that has been present in movies these days. Cloverfield being a film to adapt this practice. The creative team behind Blair Witch have been hinting and working on a sequel for quite some time now. Bloody Disgusting recently spoke to Ed Sanchez and Dan Myrick and here is what the two directors had to say:

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. 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

The first Blair With sequel, entitled, Blair Witch: The Book Of Shadows, received mixed reviews from fans of the first film since it used a completely different film style. The lack of success with that film may be why it has been so long t develop another film.  But now it seems they are ready with a new story and hope they to release the info soon. Sanchez goes on to say

In the next couple of weeks, something should happen; either a yes or a no or a maybe. 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.

Myrick also adds

We’ve been working on an idea and it’s a concept that we like a lot. 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.

It seems like that is always the tag line. Everyone always says we want to introduce this to a new generation..blah blah blah. Well at least it isn’t a remake this time. A sequel I can actually respect.

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. 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

So there you have it. A new Blair Witch is getting closer and closer to production. We will let you in on more info as it comes out, but, do you want to see another Blair Witch film?