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Lionsgate Developing ‘Magic’ Remake With Sam Raimi, Roy Lee Producing

The studio says the project is in development with no director or release date announced.

Overview

  • The newly imagined take on the 1978 psychological horror film will be produced by Sam Raimi alongside Roy Lee.
  • Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, known for genre remakes, are writing the screenplay.
  • Chris Hammond and Tim Sullivan, who championed the revival, will produce, with Raimi Productions’ Zainab Azizi also producing.
  • Executive producers are Paul Fishkin and Andrew Childs for Vertigo, with Meredith Wieck and Pavan Kalidindi overseeing for Lionsgate.
  • Lionsgate and the producers spent years uniting the original film’s rights holders to enable the remake, which has no production timeline yet.