The new Blair Witch Project will be released in cinemas in September 2027

Nearly thirty years after the original horror phenomenon, Lionsgate is preparing a new vision of The Blair Witch Project for a new generation of viewers.

Because Backrooms is the phenomenon of this early summer and that Obsession has become one of the highest-grossing films in Hollywood cinema, the timing seems ideal for the grandfather of found footage modern in turn emerges from the forest and returns to haunt the dark rooms.

Lionsgate has officially set the release date for the new Blair Witch Projectwhich will arrive in cinemas on September 24, 2027.

Plot details are still being kept under wraps, but Lionsgate Motion Picture Group president Adam Fogelson has previously described the project as “a new vision“who goes”reintroduce this horror classic to a new generation“.

Released in 1999, The Blair Witch Project has become a true cultural phenomenon. Shot on a shoestring budget, the film grossed nearly $250 million worldwide and remains one of the biggest successes in the history of independent cinema.

The feature also popularized the found footage genre, telling the supposedly real story of three student filmmakers who disappear while making a documentary on the legend of the Blair Witch.

This new version will benefit from the involvement of the creators of the original film, Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick and Gregg Hale, who will be executive producers. Actors from the first film, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, will also participate in the project.

In production, we also find two big names in modern horror: Jason Blum, founder of Blumhouse, and James Wan, boss of Atomic Monster, accompanied in particular by Roy Lee, Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath.

The franchise had already given birth to a first sequel, The Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 in 2000, then to a new film, Blair Witchdirected by Adam Wingard in 2016. Neither, however, managed to reproduce the phenomenon of the original feature film.