A new “Paranormal Activity” film is coming soon from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster with James Wan joining the franchise …
There’s a new “Paranormal Activity” movie in development but this won’t be just another straight to streaming sequel but rather a “rebirth” of the franchise.
The film is being produced by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster with James Wan boarding the new project as a producer. The original “Paranormal Activity” was shot for just $15,000 and helped redefine the found footage genre with the movie going onto earn more than $194 million at the box office.
The success of the film actually helped Blumhouse get off the ground and now that remains one of the biggest studios producing horror films to this day.
While “Paranormal Activity” has spawned seven films in total, the most recent sequels have largely been forgettable, straight to streaming movies that came and went without much attention.
But now the latest project, which is also being produced by Paramount, is expected to get priority status from the studio with Wan joining the franchise as a producer along with Oren Peli, who was the filmmaker behind the original movie first released in 2007.
“I’ve been a huge admirer of ‘Paranormal Activity’ since the brilliant first movie, with its creeping slow burn and subtle ability to make the unseen terrifying,” Wan said about the project. “I’m looking forward to expanding on its legacy and helping shape the next evolution of this scary found-footage franchise.”
The original film followed a young married couple who believe they are being haunted by some kind of entity inside their apartment. With cameras set up everywhere in an attempt to catch something supernatural happening, the husband and wife experience escalating incidents that just get scarier and scarier as time passes.
“Diving in with James for this exciting rebirth of the franchise that started it all for Blumhouse is exactly what we dreamed of when we merged with Atomic Monster,” Blumhouse CEO Jason Blum said in a statement. “I’ll be actively involved with him to introduce this new chapter.
“Thankfully, we’re able to spend a little more than the $15,000 we had on the first movie, but one thing will remain the same — do not see it alone. We look forward to partnering with Josh Greenstein, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Jeff Shell and their teams at Paramount as we bring Paranormal Activity back to life.”
There’s no word on how quickly the new “Paranormal Activity” film could go into production but obviously this film is coming along quickly now that Wan is on board as a producer after he helped launch two of the most successful horror franchises in history with “The Conjuring” and “Insidious.”
