Update on The Craft Remake; It Isn’t Actually a Remake
Back in May of last year, we learned that Honeymoon director Leigh Janiak will be co-writing and directing a remake of the beloved 1996 flick The Craft, and in celebration of the original film’s 20th birthday, we’ve just been provided with an update on the so-called remake. As it turns out, it’s not actually a remake at all!
In an interview with Hitfix, producer Douglas Wick set the record straight, revealing that Janiak’s version of The Craft is actually going to be a decades-later sequel. Say what?!
“I wouldn’t say that we wouldn’t so much call it a remake as a ‘twenty years later,'” Wick informed the site. “There will be callbacks to the original movie, so you will see there is a connection between what happened in the days of The Craft and how these young women come across this magic many years later.”
“Here are some young women who once again discover the power of magic, and we explore their emotional lives, their wants, their fears, their longings, as they become empowered,” he elaborated. “So you know, the same way you use a war movie to explore the psyche of men, you get to create a heightened world to explore the psyche of these women. And so that seemed like an opportunity that was ripe and a way to make a movie that would be very much about now. And of course, part of that was just finding a talent that felt like enough of a real talent that you’d really be interested in her interpretation of this kind of story now, and of course Leigh is exactly that.”
Janiak will write the script with Honeymoon collaborator Phil Graziadei.
The original starred Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True as Catholic school students who use the dark arts to settle scores and resolve their personal issues. Eventually, black magic tears the group apart. Andrew Fleming directed the film, which grossed nearly $25 million at the domestic box office.
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