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The Blair Witch is coming again and she or he’s bringing alongside a thimble. At CinemaCon 2024, Lionsgate broke some main information about its upcoming franchise movies. The most important reveals have been that will probably be teaming with Blumhouse to carry again The Blair Witch Challenge—and that Margot Robbie’s firm, LuckyChap, is working with the studio to lastly make a film based mostly on Monopoly.
Past that? There aren’t many particulars. The Blair Witch movie was described as “a brand new imaginative and prescient … that may reintroduce this horror traditional for a brand new era.” For Monopoly, the take has a “clear perspective.” Nevertheless, that was it—no additional perception into what that perspective is likely to be.
The announcement comes off the corporate additionally confirming work is underway on the Highlander franchise, starring Henry Cavill; Naruto, by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton; and Now You See Me 3 from Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland). The massive franchise potential past simply the preliminary installments was the important thing right here, together with the information that Now You See Me may have each new and returning forged members from the heist collection.
Cavill was in attendance to speak about his two upcoming Man Ritchie movies, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Within the Gray, but additionally commented on Highlander. He admitted that when he first learn the script, he wasn’t certain the way it was going to evolve the franchise however was shortly wowed. “My goodness me,” he stated. “What we’re doing—the unique motion pictures simply touched on the lore. We’re going deep into the that means of those characters.” He additionally stated the sword work in that is past something he’s carried out earlier than.
So, large issues coming from Lionsgate. After we hear extra about Blair Witch or Monopoly, we’ll let .
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