Screen Gems rebooting Urban Legend!

February 10th 2020, 4:00pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Screen Gems has hired WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE writer-director, Colin Minihan, to take the helm of their URBAN LEGEND reboot, which will introduce "an iconic new slasher for the digital age in a world where internet urban legends are born and move at a terrifying pace."

More specifically, the new movie will center on

a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.

Screen Gems has put the reboot on the fast track, and casting is currently underway. Mike Medavoy and Benjamin Anderson will produce and Eric Paquette and Michael Bitar will oversee for Screen Gems.

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The original film began:

When New England college student Natalie (Alicia Witt) finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about her school's own legend: a twenty-five-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal Psych professor. As the fraternities prepare to celebrate the macabre anniversary, Natalie discovers that she is the focus of the crazed killer's intentions in the ultimate urban legend – the unfolding story of her own horrific murder.

It was directed by Jamie Blanks and starred Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, and Robert Englund. Scream Factory unleashed the 90’s horror hit on Collector’s Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray back in November 2018.