Barrett offered some insight as to how the project came to be and how he and long-time collaborator Adam Wingard came to be the ones to take on Blair Witch. As it turns out, this is something that several producers at Lionsgate had been planning for some time, and they were doing their best to keep it a secret for all of this time. The reaction from everyone at the screening was overwhelmingly positive, and the buzz coming out of the screening was electric. So it feels really good to finally be able to just be like Blair Witch, Blair Witch, Blair Witch, Blair Witch." But we had to condition ourselves so much to not ever say those words out loud.
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"It's really crazy because, you know, we always knew that eventually the movie was going to be called The Blair Witch, or Blair Witch. The director seemed very relieved to finally be able to let the cat out of the bag.
Director Adam Wingard, as well as writer Simon Barrett, were on hand with some of the producers for the movie for a Q&A after the screening. After the screening was over, it was revealed that the new title for the movie was indeed Blair Witch, which was fairly obvious to those in attendance only mere minutes into the screening. The studio debuted the movie, at the time advertising it as The Woods, on Friday night at San Diego Comic-Con. This weekend, Lionsgate and director Adam Wingard revealed during the world premiere screening that the movie is actually a sequel to The Blair Witch Project. A couple of months ago, the studio released a teaser trailer for a mysterious new horror movie called The Woods. Secrets are very hard to keep in Hollywood these days, but Lionsgate pulled a pretty epic fast one over on everyone. Slowly, they begin to realize the legend is all too real and more sinister than they could have imagined." At first the group is hopeful, especially when a pair of locals offer to act as guides through the dark and winding woods, but as the endless night wears on, the group is visited by a menacing presence. "A group of college students venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of James' sister who many believe is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch. Here is the official Blair Witch synopsis. We have the newly rechristened trailer, a poster and a photo from the thriller, which hits the big screen nationwide on September 16. In fact, the movie has been retitled, quite simply, Blair Witch.
But everyone was in for quite the surprise when it was revealed that the movie was actually the long anticipated sequel to The Blair Witch Project. Tonight, Lionsgate invited a number of fans and members of the press to a special screening of their new horror movie The Woods.