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The Blair Witch Project’s original cast ask for retroactive payments as reboot announced


Actors Rei Hance, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams – who improvised most of horror film’s dialogue – claim they didn’t have proper union representation in 1999 and seek residuals

On Saturday, actors Rei Hance (formerly known as Heather Donahue), Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams issued an open letter to Lionsgate, the studio that now owns the Blair Witch franchise. The actors also asked for creative input in the Blair Witch franchise, which to date has spawned two more films, multiple novels, comic books, a video game series and an upcoming revival that Lionsgate announced this month, in collaboration with popular horror studio Blumhouse. In an Instagram post following Lionsgate’s announcement of a Blair Witch revival earlier this month, Leonard said he and his fellow two stars were paid $300,000 each for a full buy-out of their ownership over the original film.

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