Back in May of last year Sony announced a remake of the 1996 cult classic The Craft, but it seems the new film won’t be a reboot after all, with producer Douglas Wick telling HitFix will serve as a quasi-sequel picking up 20 years after the original.
“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,” states Wick. “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. 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 [director Leigh Janiark] is exactly that.”
The Craft starred Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk and Rachel True as four teenage girls who form a coven of witches and use their powers for their own gain. Budgeted at $15 million, the film earned over $55 million at the global box office.
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Originally published May 7, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
