It's 20 years since The Craft weaved its spell in cinemas and there was talk last May of a remake in the works. Now producer Douglas Wick tells Hitfix that we should expect more of a sequel.
The Craft, should you have missed it back in 1996, revolved around a quartet of teenage girls (Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney and Rachel True) dabbling with witchcraft and predictably getting in over their heads. It was not at all bad, and could feasibly have spawned sequels at the time, had not the TV series Charmed come along a couple of years later to somewhat steal its thunder. Looks like it might finally get that chance...
"I wouldn't say that we wouldn't so much call it a remake as a 'twenty years later,'" Wick says, adding, ""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."
Honeymoon's Leigh Janiak remains attached to co-write the script with regular collaborator Phil Graziadei, and direct the new film. "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," Wick says. "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."
For more thoughts on the idea from Wick and original co-star True, head to Hitfix's site. There's currently no release date set for the film, but you can bet Sony will want to push ahead on this as soon as possible.