Blair Witch Project directors say they weren’t consulted for the new sequel: “Studios are not your friends”

Eduardo Sanchez and Dan Myrick, the directors of 1999’s found-footage horror flick The Blair Witch Project, say that Blumhouse has not contacted them about the upcoming reboot-sequel.

“Studios are not your friends,” Myrick told Film Stories. “They’re a business, and so we learned a trial by fire in that regard. After that, it’s just the way the business operates. I mean, Lionsgate picked up the rights. They’ve made a couple of attempts at follow-up films that have been moderately successful, but we still hold on to the naive notion that there’s other Blair movies to explore that we feel would be valuable. Certainly to the audience, to the fans. Unfortunately, Lionsgate just hasn’t embraced that approach.”