‘The Craft’ Remake Is Going To Be A Sequel And Yes, It’s Actually Happening

This week marks the 20th anniversary of The Craft, a film about revenge, jealousy, the fury inside teenage girls and also, chokers.

It’s been rumoured for a while that Andrew Fleming’s teen witch cult classic was getting a reboot TV series (particularly with the success of the similarly dark American Horror Story: Coven) but in an interview with HitFlix today, the producer of the original film Douglas Wick, says that not only will there definitely be another movie, but it’s going to be a sequel that takes place 20 years later.

In the interview, Wick said that The Craft explored the female psyche in the same way that war films explore the male psyche (this may be because part of the teen witch trope is the fantasy of unbridled female autonomy, but I digress). “You get to create a heightened world to explore the psyche of these women,” he said. “And so that seemed like an opportunity that was ripe and a way to make a movie that would be very much about now.”

Right now Leigh Janiak (who did the Scream TV series) and Phil Graziadei (who worked with Leigh on a film called Honeymoon) are working on the script, with no casting announcements or filming dates confirmed. Given how much The Craft has maintained its relevancy, finding a dedicated following in a new generation of fans, let’s hope that they don’t mess with the formula too much.

First it was Scream getting the reboot, then Trainspotting, then Independence Day, then The First Wives Club (??), then Space Jam and now The Craft. Which film from 1996 will be next? Fingers crossed for The English Patient 2!