Before the movie became a phenomenon, it was two friends with nowhere to go. Eduardo Sanchez was working as a bartender, and Daniel Myrick was driving a blueprint truck when they dusted off their old idea for a woods movie.
The result, The Blair Witch Project, made $248.6 million worldwide. What it cost is still a bit of a legend. Sanchez has said the original budget to get the film shot was probably between $20,000 and $25,000. Other accounts say $35,000 or $60,000. The post-production pushed the total before Sundance to somewhere between $200,000 and $750,000. Then marketing blew the budget up to nearly $8 million. Even the high estimates keep the actual shoot well under $100,000.
How The Blair Witch Project Was Made on a Tiny Budget
The savings came from a very unusual method. A cast of unknowns shot the film themselves. “The actors were actually the camera operators,” Myrick told Roger Ebert’s site. Using GPS, the directors sent them to spots marked with flags or milk crates, where they left their footage and picked up food and notes from the directors.
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There was barely a script. The two wrote a roughly 35-page outline with no dialogue. “We had always wanted the dialogue to be improvised,” Sanchez said. The filmmakers also gave the actors less and less food as the shoot went on. “Over time, we sort of rationed back their …read more
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