Why was the blair witch project made?

When they were creating the second film of the Blair witch, they thought it would be risky to announce they were actually making a sequel to the film. This is because there could of been bad backlash on them and questions on why they re created a film that the audience already thought was good. They originally planned to release the film names as 'the woods' and then just hope that people decided to watch it. There was a change of plan and they then decided to reveal it as comic-con which had a positive reaction.


By making the film they wanted to make the idea clear that the sequal will never be as good as the original film. So they updated the way in how the film was made and completely modernised different aspects of the film, but still making it relevant to the original storyline.


The director says in an interview that hes glad he made a modern version of the movie as he can see the differences abit of technology can make in a film. He says he wanted to try out the film in a modernised way to see how it changed himself as a director. He got some bad reviews about how hes cliché but he ignored them and is proud of the film that he has made.


The director made a remake of a successful film as the film already had a built up fan base who loved the original, so when this version was released in cinema and box office there was a lot of people going to watch it and it made a lot of money.