Back in 1983, AMITYVILLE 3D was one of the last gasps of the period’s big-studio dimensional-cinema boom. Now, hot on the heels of the news that Lionsgate is proceeding with THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D, comes word that the process is returning to that haunted Long Island town.

Hannibal Classics is gearing up for a September start on AMITYVILLE: THE LEGACY 3D, based on the book AMITYVILLE: THE EVIL ESCAPES by John G. Jones (which also inspired a 1989 TV movie of the same title). The script was written by Steve B. Harris (who’s also producing with Rionda del Castro and Paul Mason) and Andrew Helm, with a director and cast to be announced after this month’s Cannes Film Festival. The story focuses on Nancy and Michael Evans, who move into their new suburban home with their daughter and Nancy’s niece and nephew, who were orphaned after their mother committed suicide. Nancy begins hearing strange noises and sensing an evil presence, and as tensions mount among the Evanses, she discovers letters her late sister, who went through the same experience, wrote to a pair of priests. Little does Nancy know at first that they were part of a group who once tried to cast the evil out of the Amityville house…

AMITYVILLE: THE LEGACY 3D is scheduled for completion in October 2012; see the complete synopsis here. 

 

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