Lionsgate is to reboot the "Blair Witch" franchise — without the participation of the original team, who were also not involved in Joe Berlinger’s 2000 sequel and Adam Wingard’s 2016 follow-up. “Neither one of the sequels connected with audiences the way they wanted it to connect. And so it might at least be worth talking to some of the original creators,” production designer Ben Rock told the Hollywood Reporter. Other members of the original team have been speaking out online, including Joshua Leonard, one of the lead actors. "At this point, it’s 25 years of disrespect 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,” he wrote on Instagram.
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