David Duchovny has signed on to co-star in the Blumhouse reboot of the 1996 cult favorite witch movie THE CRAFT. Details on his character were not revealed in the casting announcement.
Duchovny joins a cast that includes Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna, and Nicholas Galitzine. He's the first cast member who's not in their teens or twenties, so he's probably either playing the father of a witch or a teacher with witches in his classroom.
A while back, Leigh Janiak was attached to direct and co-write the new take on THE CRAFT, and she said her approach was to make this a sequel set twenty years after the events of the first movie while centering on a new group of young women. She said there would be "a connection between what happened in the days of THE CRAFT, and how these young women come across this magic many years later." But Janiak opted to direct a trilogy of FEAR STREET movies instead and THE CRAFT is now in the hands of Zoe Lister-Jones, and we're not sure if she's taking that same approach.
We do have a plot synopsis that describes the film as
a remake of the 1996 supernatural teen thriller. When starting at a new school, Hannah befriends Tabby, Lourdes, and Frankie & quickly becomes the fourth member of their clique. Hannah soon learns that she somehow brings a great power to the quartet.
Well, the names of all the witches are different, so maybe there's still a chance this will be a movie that references the events of the first THE CRAFT instead of being a full remake.
Blumhouse's Jason Blum is producing the new film with Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher's Red Wagon Entertainment. Red Wagon's Lucas Wiesendanger serves as executive producer alongside the first film's director Andrew Fleming. THE CRAFT is being financed by Blumhouse and Columbia Pictures.
Here's a picture of Lister-Jones with the coven she has assembled: