In the wake of the Friday the 13th reboot getting a brand new director, the TV spin-off has hit a rather large roadblock.
At the Television Critics Association’s press tour, The CW president Mark Pedowitz confirmed they were moving away from Crystal Lake Chronicles as they had more appealing projects to work on. “We had better pilots,” explained Pedowitz (via Entertainment Weekly). “The bottom line is we felt we had stronger things to go with, and we didn’t go forward with it. It was well-written, it was darker than we wanted it to be, and we didn’t believe it had sustainability … We didn’t believe that it was a sustainable script, a sustainable series. It was a very good pilot, but not a sustainable series.”
Details on the show have been sketchy, although it was rumoured to be an hour-long show about Crystal Lake as a town and how the murders of Jason Voorhees affected its inhabitants. Jason was set to feature, along with another back-woods killer, and more details of the Voorhees family were said to be revealed. Original director Sean S. Cunningham was going to produce the series.
With The CW airing the majority of DC’s TV output in Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl, its unsurprising that the station feels like it has enough on its hands.
Originally published August 12, 2016. Updated April 8, 2023.
