It was only a matter of time before it happened, but it looks like Michael Reeve’s controversial historical drama The Witchfinder General will be receiving the remake treatment, with Nicolas Winding Refn and Rupert Preston set to produce.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Refn will be producing via his Space Rocket Nation company, in collaboration with Preston’s Sunrise Films. Vertigo Releasing will take charge of the UK distribution.
Based on Ronald Bassett’s novel of the same name, The Witchfinder General from 1968 starred Vincent Price as a fictional take on Matthew Hopkins, a witch hunter appointed by Cromwell who roams the countryside with his henchmen torturing confessions of witchcraft out of women for money.
The budget is estimated to be in the range of $5-10 million and will start filming next year. So far, no writers or directors are attached. Refn is also set to produce a remake of William Lustig’s Maniac Cop.
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Originally published May 19, 2016. Updated April 13, 2018.
