By Staff
Jun 8, 2007
The co-creator of the Blair Witch Project is planning to resurrect the horror franchise with either a prequel or a second sequel.
The original film in 1999 cost just $22,000 (?11,000) to make and took a staggering $240.5 million ($120.25 million) at the box office. The sequel a year later was less successful and seemed to end any plans for future films.
But Dan Myrick, the franchise's co-creator, is desperate to write a follow-up to the hit horror franchise - or even a prequel to the unfortunate student film-makers' original forest ordeal.
He tells Bloody-Disgusting.com, "We have a prequel idea, we even have a sequel idea, and we would like to explore the mythology one of these days. Lion's Gate owns the rights to it right now, one of these days when they are prepared to get behind it; we're prepared to shoot it. It's all a matter of the money guys.
He adds of his idea, "It delves into the mythology of the witch itself. How the legend got started, and arguably whether it was true or not. I think it's important to always maintain that ambiguity, whether the legend is a supernatural force in the woods, or if it is all in people's minds. I think most boogeymen are just that, a little bit of both. What is Bigfoot really? Is it a bear, is it an eight-foot monster roaming the badlands... for me the prequel would be an exploration of the start of the legend, the whole back-story, and would give people an idea of where all that mythology took root and why. I think that would be cool."
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