Trivia / The Craft: Legacy

• Actor-Shared Background: Zoey Luna, Lovie Simone and Gideon Adlon all have experience practicing witchcraft in real life.
• Box Office Bomb: Likely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the movie only got a limited theatrical release and was made available for streaming the same day. It grossed just $2.3 million on an estimated budget of $18 million, though its unclear how well it did with VOD.
• California Doubling: The film is set in the United States of America (presumably the eastern or north-eastern United States based on the plants), yet was filmed primarily in Toronto, Canada.
• Dawson Casting: Much like the original film, most of the actresses playing the four teen witches were in their twenties. Zoey Luna is a downplayed example; she was nineteen portraying a high schooler.
• Deleted Role: All the scenes with Lourdes' grandmother (who appears in some trailers and clips) were removed from the finished film.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Lourdes explains to Lily what auras are and helps her to see them, which is much longer and more in-depth than the short clip included in the film's Good-Times Montage. Lourdes also tells Lily about her grandmother being a bruja (Spanish for "witch") who taught her and the other girls basic witchcraft; she states her grandmother raised her after her "super Catholic" mother kicked her out.
  • In an alternate version of the opening scene, Lourdes, Tabby and Frankie are interrupted by Lourdes' abuela screaming. They run into the kitchen to find her lying on the floor, talking about "the Reckoning" and see that an egg she cracked into a frying pan contained blood.
• Direct to Video: It went straight to video-on-demand in the US, although it got a small theatrical release in other countries. It's possible it was originally intended for a domestic theatrical release as well, but the COVID-19 Pandemic would've put a wrench in that.
• Fake American: Nicholas Galitzine, who plays Timmy, is English.
• Missing Trailer Scene: The scene where Lily looks at a photograph of Nancy isn't included in the film. The scene where Adam (David Duchovny) tells the girls to be careful of weirdos and Lily responds "We are the weirdos, mister" does still happen in the film, but in a completely different context and setting; it's also Tabby who says the line, not Lily.
• Promoted Fan Girl: Zoe Lister-Jones has mentioned being a fan of the original film and wrote and directed the sequel.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Both Lourdes and her actress Zoey Luna are transgender.
• Real Time Time Skip: The film is set in 2020, the year it was released, and is explicitly set up as a sequel to The Craft, meaning twenty-four years has passed in-universe and out. Nancy looks to be in her late thirties or early forties (Fairuza Balk was 45 during filming), which fits with the timeline given she was in her late teens in the first movie; as she's revealed to be Lily's birth mother, at least sixteen years would had to have passed given Lily is in her late teens.
• Sequel Gap: The original film was released in 1996, while this film was released in 2020, twenty-four years later. There were originally plans to make a sequel to The Craft in the 1990's, but this never came to fruition.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Zoe Lister-Jones revealed the film would originally have explored more of Lourdes' backstory and Latin American roots, including revealing she learnt witchcraft from her bruja grandmother and comes from a family of witches (her grandmother was cast and there are scenes featuring the character in some teaser trailers), but this subplot was cut from the final movie.
  • Lourdes was originally written as a "punk" in the script, but in the film itself it was decided she would have a trendier, more mainstream wardrobe with punk influences (such as safety pins and plaid).
  • An early idea for The Craft sequel back in the 90s was a movie or TV series set at St Benedict's Academy, the school in the first movie, revolving around a new set of witches who were inspired by the original coven. This movie instead shifts the setting from Los Angeles to the eastern part of the United States and doesn't explicitly mention the original coven save for Nancy's cameo at the end.
  • Sony Pictures announced a reboot/remake of The Craft in 2016, with Leigh Janiak (known for Honeymoon and the Fear Street trilogy) as director. However, in 2017 Janiak left the project and in 2019 it was announced that Blumhouse Productions would instead be producing the film, with Zoe Lister-Jones directing.
• Word of God: According to writer/director Zoe Lister-Jones, Lily is the result of Nancy being raped, and Nancy voluntarily committed herself into the psychiatric hospital she's currently staying in.
• Write What You Know: Zoe Lister-Jones stated she drew inspiration from her own childhood/adolescence for parts of Lily's story, such as having to adjust to living with a stepfather and stepbrothers, and feeling like she didn't fit in at school.

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