A little over a year ago, we reported that Eduardo Sanchez (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT) had been working on the idea of creating a bigfoot film (a trilogy in fact). News at the time was:

Eduardo Sanchez – the co-director of The Blair Witch Project – is jumping into Bigfoot lore with a planned film trilogy. The director will helm EXISTS, a project he penned with his Seventh Moon scribe Jamie Nash. WETA and Spectral Motion are teaming up to create Bigfoot (whoa!) and shooting is expected to begin this fall just outside of Austin, Texas. Sanchez says EXISTS will be the first film in a trilogy that explores and re-invents the Bigfoot myth and, as he says, make Bigfoot “scary again.” Creature performer Brian Steele (Predators, Hellboy) will play the legendary monster.

At SDCC, Sanchez released further information on a project that, personally, I’ve been drooling over since I first heard about it. Here is what he had to say:

From Haxan Films and Amber Entertainment, The Blair Witch Project and Lovely Molly director Eduardo Sanchez is currently in post production on EXISTS, his found footage Bigfoot movie starring Brian Steele, Dora Madison Burge, Samuel Davis, Roger Edwards, Chris Osborn and Denise Williamson. Penned by Sanchez and Jamie Nash, the horror pic follows a group of twentysomethings who take a trip to a cabin deep in the wooded wilderness and are methodically hunted by a Bigfoot-like beast.

“Our main focus in EXISTS was the creature itself which was designed by Spectral Motion,” says producer Jane Fleming at the San Diego Comic-Con. “It’s basically the kind of effects work you’d find in a big budget movie in our small scale film. Actor Brian Steele plays our creature and he is amazing.”