New Version Of The Craft In Development?

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Here's an intriguing one. A reader at Dread Central who partakes in online surveys has revealed that he was recently asked about his interest in a reboot of the 1996 teen horror The Craft . The origin of the question itself is unclear, and there might be any number of reasons for a market research company to ask it. But it also seems an oddly specific enquiry if some sort of new version isn't in development somewhere.

Columbia Pictures' The Craft, should you have missed it 18 years ago, 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. Charmed's opening credits theme, Love Spit Love's alt-rock cover of The Smiths' 'How Soon Is Now?', even came from The Craft's soundtrack.

The film's director Andrew Fleming went on to Dick, The In-Laws, Nancy Drew and Hamlet 2, while the cast drifted off to varying degrees of success. And the rest, for The Craft, was almost silence.

There have been occasional rumblings of a revival since though, and Dread Central's intel suggests those murmurs continue. The specific wording of the questionnaire question is "How likely would you be to see a reboot of The Craft in theatre if it was released?" So we seem to be talking about a potential film rather than a TV version...

You can answer that slightly gramatically dodgy query yourselves in the comments below.

from Empire News