


The sold-out midnight screening had kids lined up in the alley, with tickets being scalped for $50. I think that's a big part of the story."įive years ago this week, "The Blair Witch Project" debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. "The same job I quit on national television, on 'Conan O'Brien.' My wife and I had a baby, and I needed to support my family and not worry about whether I was going to get the next role on 'CSI'." He sighs. "I'm moving furniture," Williams says from his home in upstate New York. "I really liked that Michael guy," he said. Williams, who'd played one of the three film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods. My jaw was dropping." Spielberg even singled out a member of the cast, Michael C. "He asked me how we shot 'Blair,' and said he was really inspired by it. Meeting Spielberg? "That was huge!" Myrick says. It was a couple of years ago, and Daniel Myrick, codirector of "The Blair Witch Project," was visiting the set of "Minority Report." Myrick was thrilled to see the master at work. Steven Spielberg began to worry long before we did.
