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1. • • The film was written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, who used an authentic-looking website, an online message board, and other innovative strategies to convince audiences that The Blair Witch Project was a documentary about real people rather than a fictional film.
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   Was the Blair Witch Project a true story?

   • The film was written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, who used an authentic-looking website, an online message board, and other innovative strategies to convince audiences that The Blair Witch Project was a documentary about real people rather than a fictional film.

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   When did the Blair Witch Project come out?

   • When The Blair Witch Project premiered at the Sundance Film Festival at midnight on January 23, 1999, its promotional marketing campaign listed the actors as either "missing" or "deceased". Due to its successful Sundance run, Artisan Entertainment bought the film's distribution rights for $1.1 million.

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   Who invented the Blair Witch?

   • The legend of the Blair Witch was invented by Myrick and Sánchez. The two wrote a bare-bones screenplay with little dialogue and hired three unknown actors— Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard—to play the student filmmakers, using their own names as the names of their characters.

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   Who made the Blair Witch movie?

   • Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend of the Blair Witch in 1993. They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvised. A casting call advertisement on Backstage magazine was prepared by the directors; Donahue, Williams, and Leonard were cast.

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   Who filmed the Blair Witch documentary?

   • In one of the most intense filmmaking experiences imaginable, actors Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams played fictionalized versions of themselves, heading out to the Maryland woods to film a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch.

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   How much did the Blair Witch Project cost?

   • But two years later, Sanchez and Myrick had a bonafide hit on their hands with The Blair Witch Project, which inspired a new horror subgenre and became one of the most iconic horror flicks of all time. Made with a budget of only $60,000, the film premiered at Sundance in 1999.

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   The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. It is a fictional story of three student filmmakers— Heather Donahue , Michael C. Williams , and Joshua Leonard —who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland , in 1994 to film a documentary ...

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   Sep 19, 2016 · Festival guides made it very clear that the movie, The Blair Witch Project, was, in fact, a work of fiction, but the masquerade made writer-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez...

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   Apr 23, 2024 · The actual making of the film was comparably arduous – albeit without the supernatural intervention. Although Hance, Leonard, and Williams were briefed on the basic premise of the story, the ...

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    Feb 6, 2024 · Jenn Adams. Few films have changed the landscape of horror like The Blair Witch Project. Purporting to be recovered footage from a doomed documentary, the story follows three filmmakers who...