One of horror’s most influential franchises is officially heading back into the woods.
Lionsgate announced this week that a new Blair Witch movie hits theaters on September 24, 2027. That makes it the franchise’s first big-screen outing since Adam Wingard’s 2016 reboot, over a decade of silence. The studio is going all-in to break it.
Who’s Making It–
Dylan Clark directs the new film. He built his reputation making horror shorts on YouTube before Hollywood came knocking. Chris Thomas Devlin wrote the original screenplay, and Clark is currently rewriting it.
Lionsgate developed the project through its partnership with Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, the banner Jason Blum and James Wan formed when they merged their companies in 2024. Blum and Wan produce alongside Roy Lee, Adam Hendricks, and Greg Gilreath.
The Original Team Is Involved–
Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson calls it a “new vision” designed to “reintroduce this horror classic for a new generation.” But the studio isn’t cutting ties with what came before.
Original directors Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick, and Gregg Hale serve as executive producers. So do original cast members Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams. For fans of the 1999 film, that’s a meaningful signal.
No cast announcement has come yet.
A Franchise With a Complicated Past–
The original Blair Witch Project spent less than $60,000 to make and earned $248 million at the global box office. It also invented the modern found-footage genre. That’s a hard act to follow.
The 2000 sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, largely abandoned what made the original work. It earned around $47 million. Wingard’s 2016 *Blair Witch* took a different approach, a direct sequel to the original, but earned only around $45 million on a $5 million budget. Neither film came close to 1999.
Whether Clark and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster can change that is the real question. September 24, 2027 is when we find out.
