About 20 hours of footage was shot, which was edited down to 82 minutes. The film entered production in October 1997, with the principal photography taking place in Maryland for eight days. A casting call advertisement in Backstage magazine was prepared by the directors Donahue, Williams and Leonard were cast.
They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvised. Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend of the Blair Witch in 1993. The purportedly "recovered footage" is the film the viewer sees. The three disappear, but their equipment and footage are discovered a year later. Williams, and Joshua Leonardâwho hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. It is based on the purportedly true story of three student filmmakersâHeather Donahue, Michael C.
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