Kat McNamara Interview: Urban Legend Reboot Update

In an industry that loves to remake/reboot past favorites, 1998’s Urban Legend seemed like the perfect revival candidate in the horror department. Yes, we got Urban Legends: Final Cut in 2000 and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary in 2005, but there’s room for improvement — a lot of improvement, in fact. As the title suggests, Urban Legend leans heavily into the idea of true crimes being misconstrued and turned into local myths. In Pendleton University’s case, that myth is the massacre at Stanley Hall. When the campus is hit with a string of murders, the tendency to brand such tragedies as urban legends leaves the door wide open for the killer to pick off victims one by one. While there is specificity in the 1998 original regarding the location and the killer’s motive, the Urban Legend concept is universal and ripe for modernization. Back in August 2020, Collider exclusively revealed that an Urban Legend reboot was on the move over at Screen Gems with Colin Minihan directing a cast that was expected to