One of the creators behind The Blair Witch Project says he has written scripts for more films in the series but hasn't been allowed to make them.
Back in 1999, the world of cinema changed forever, with the release of one of the most iconic horror movies of all time.
Taking the found footage idea to another level, young writers Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez came up with the terrifying Blair Witch.
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The film followed three young film buffs who, in 1994, head out to to a small town in Maryland to shoot a documentary about the infamous 'Blair Witch'.
It's also cut with interviews of local residents, who have all heard stories about the terror inflicted by the malevolent figure, as well as shaky handheld footage captured by the trio.
Such was the power of the marketing, many went into the cinema convinced something seriously bad had happened to the actors - missing posters were even put up.
Well, 25 years on, and after two fairly poor sequels, the original is getting a reboot.
Confirming the news, Blumhouse CEO Jason Blum said: "I’m very grateful to Adam and the team at Lionsgate for letting us play in their sandbox."
However, two people who won't be involved in the remake are its creators, Myrick and Sanchez.
Speaking to LADbible ahead of the 25th anniversary of the original movie's release, Myrick revealed that he had written scripts and put ideas for prequels and sequels to Lionsgate, which were all dismissed.
"We've always had an idea for a prequel, which sort of explains the sort of colonial mythology surrounding the Blair Witch, and the story of Elly Kedward being banished from the town, just a cool period piece of that ordeal, we thought would make a great sort of origin story for Blair Witch, sort of in the spirit of the film The Witch that came out, which I thought was brilliant," he told us.
"That vibe and that feel and that spookiness could play very well as an origin story for Blair Witch and we've always wanted to do that.
"For whatever reason, Lionsgate just hasn't been receptive to that, maybe it's because of the cost, I don't know, but it just seems like the fans would love a Blair Witch origin story in that regard.
"We also wrote a script, which was a sequel, like a completely new episode that took place out in that same area of the woods, a more traditional narrative film that is rooted in the mythology but doesn't try to play on the same found footage."
Myrick also told us that he had a number of other ideas, creating a 'Star Wars fiction' with different stories from the same canon being told in standalone movies.
He explained: "The Blair Witch Project is one episode of that entire canon, right? Then you have the origin story of Elly Kedward, you have Eileen Treacle episode that happened years later, of course, Rustin Parr, which is 40 years later.
"You have all these different episodes, and we always thought it would just be cool to treat them as kind of discrete films in this pantheon of mythology.
"I've always envisioned the Rustin Parr movie like a 50s noir period piece, sort of black and white, in the spirit of a Psycho or something, that look right would be awesome. I think the fans would love that."
He added: "We have explored some approaches to it, but they just haven't been embraced by Lionsgate.
"I don't know, maybe they'll come around. Who knows? But the reality is that no one's called us, and and not to downgrade any of the movies that have been made since then, but it just seems like, if nothing but from a strictly marketing perspective, getting the original guys back to do one would be seems like it has some value. But, I don't know, I don't make the decisions there, I don't own the IP anymore.
"But one thing that's remained fairly consistent is horror has always been commercially successful when it's done, right. It's always seems to be, you know, a viable commercial enterprise. So, you know, who knows? We'll see what happens."
LADbible has contacted Lionsgate for comment.
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Dominic Smithers