High School Horror Flick The Craft Remake in the Works

The 1996 cult horror favorite, The Craft, about a group of aspiring witches at a Catholic high school, will be remade under the direction of rising genre star Leigh Janiak, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Janiak will also co-write the script with Phil Graziadei, who helped her pen her 2014 breakthrough Honeymoon, about a couple Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) and Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) whose lakeside vacation turns frightfully strange.

TheCraft was originally directed by Andrew Fleming and starred Robin Tunney as Sarah, a new student at a Catholic high school who falls in with a crowd of girls dabbling in the dark arts (Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True). Sarah turns out to be a natural witch, but the groups amateur sorcery proves disastrous when they try to use it to fix their personal problems.

Though Janiak is a relative newcomer to filmmaking prior toHoneymoon sheworked as an assistant to producer Kevin Misher she reportedly impressed executives at Sony with her take onThe Craftas a story offemale empowerment. While The Craft will be her proper follow-up to Honeymoon, she also directed an episode of MTVs upcoming TV adaptation of Scream.

Upon Honeymoons wide release, Janiak spoke with Under the Radarabout the film and what she learned from the production that will help her with future projects.

Aside from being a little more cognizant of the production things that everyone warns you about, youre just like, Its going to be fine like night shoots and water I just think knowing that you have to be confident in your vision, she said. When youre in production and shooting, knowing that is your chance. There arent re-shoots on an indie movie, so you have got to get what you know you need to get, and not move on until you know that youre ready.