For the past few years , there have been talks of a remake / sequel of the 1996 teenager witch classic , The Craft . Now , it looks like the tour has been hurl , withBlumhousecoming onboard to get the incantation — along with what looks to be the studio ’s first distaff music director for a blockbuster revulsion picture .
The undertaking is being worked on by Blumhouse , with Blum , Doug Wick , and Lucy Fisher serving as producer . Here ’s the prescribed verbal description :
When jump at a new school , Hannah befriend Tabby , Lourdes , and Frankie , and quickly becomes the quaternary member of their Clique . Hannah shortly acquire that she somehow brings not bad king to the foursome .
This latest The Craft film has been in the whole caboodle since 2015 ( andrumoredeven before then)—with the original book compose by would - be managing director Leigh Janiak and Phil Graziadei , before Daniel Casey was bring onboard for therewritea couple of twelvemonth later . It wasoriginally meantto be a rebooted sequel to the original , akin to Mary Poppins Returns , the fresh Halloween , or Jordan Peele ’s forthcoming Candyman . At least that ’s what producer Wick indicated back in 2016 .
“ I would n’t say that we would n’t so much call it a remaking as ‘ 20 years later ’ ” , Wick toldHitfixin 2016 . “ There will be callback to the original motion picture , so you will see there is a connection between what chance in the days of The Craft , and how these young woman come across this magic many years after . ”
The description in Production Weekly for this new interlingual rendition does call it a “ remaking ” of the classical 1996 celluloid that starred Robin Tunney , Fairuza Balk , Rachel True , and Neve Campbell , but it ’s voiceless to say whether it ’s a remaking , a sequel , or a “ requel ” at this head . Though , since the lead characters all have different names , it seems most likely that , at the very least , this new variant is n’t a complete remake of the original . Rather , a garbled lengthiness . Kind of like the novel Charmed serial , a novel story determine in a intimate franchise .
We reached out to Blumhouse for more information on The Craft and will update should we get a line back . Production is plant to start in July , and there ’s no button day of the month as of yet .
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Update : An former version of this story said that Casey was the film ’s co - author , but io9 has get word that director Lister - Jones is the only author on the project . Also added confirmation from Deadline .
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