The upcoming reimagining of cult found-footage horror The Blair Witch Project is bringing back its original creatives. Lionsgate has announced Dylan Clark will helm the new take from a script by Chris Thomas Devlin, which the former is rewriting. Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, who starred in the original 1999 film, will also serve as executive producers, as are the first movie’s directing trio of Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick, and Gregg Hale.

The new feature was announced in 2024 by Lionsgate and Blumhouse. While speaking at CinemaCon, Lionsgate film boss Adam Fogelson had teased “a new vision for Blair Witch that will reintroduce this horror classic for a new generation.”

Shortly after the announcement, Joshua Leonard expressed his frustration over the original film’s team not being involved in the new project. The actor wrote that there had been “25 years of disrespect [referring also to the team’s lack of involvement in 2000’s Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 or its 2016 follow-up] from the folks who’ve pocketed the lion’s share (pun intended) of the profits from OUR work, and that feels both icky and classless.”

These additions to the creative team promise to bring together the original feel of the classic horror with Lionsgate/Blumhouse’s updated vision.