BLAIR WITCH duo planning a sequel

Given the blockbuster success of shaky-cam, faux-documentary scarefests like Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity that are very clearly influenced by 1999's The Blair Witch Project, it's hardly surprising that Blair Witch creators Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick are thinking about making a sequel to the movie that started it all.

They passed on Blair Witch 2 and quickly ended up in the "Where Are They Now?" file, but Sanchez tells TheStar.com that might just "milk" the genre one more time.

They're now at the point where they're ready to do a Blair Witch 3, once again sharing writing and directing. They'd pick up from where the original left off, pretending Blair Witch 2 never happened. The duo recently went on a drive through their original Blair Witch haunts, about a half hour from Sánchez's Maryland home, looking for inspiration.

They've worked up a treatment for a new story, which would involve original cast members Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, albeit in smaller roles.

"We're at the step where we're about to pitch to Lionsgate, which owns the movie rights now. It's pretty much up to them. They can completely squash it or greenlight it."

The news that Donahue, Leonard and Williams could be involved has me curious. Would this be "lost" footage from the original trip in the woods? (If so, good luck making the actors look a decade younger.) Otherwise, it seems like they'd have to give some sort of closure to the original film's enigmatic ending. Either the three would be alive, or they'd be dead and appear as ghosts or something.