


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 " found footage" is the movie the viewer sees. The three disappear, but their equipment and footage are discovered a year later. Williams, and Joshua Leonard-who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, in 1994 to film a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch. It is a fictional story of three student filmmakers- Heather Donahue, Michael C. The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez.
