What with yesterday being Friday the 13th, it seemed an appropriate time for producer Sean S. Cunningham to announce that a cameras will roll on a new instalment in the classic horror series next year ahead of a release in 2015, while development in also underway on a TV spin-off entitled Friday the 13th: Crystal Lake Chronicles.
“There will be another Friday the 13th, which will probably get shot in the spring,” Cunningham tells FearNET during a promotional interview for the release of Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection Blu-ray. “If it all goes as I would like, it would then be released at the beginning of 2015. It won’t be a continuation of [the 2009 reboot] though. It’ll be a fresh story.”
Cunningham then went on to discuss his plans for the franchise’s second small screen spin-off: “I think there will also be Friday the 13th: Crystal Lake Chronicles, which is sort of a Smallville. We’ve been on-again off-again with that for years and there are a bunch of great stories to be told, but I think the way that it’s finally going to get delivered is not through a conventional television network, but through the Internet. I can’t tell you who the delivery people will be, but it won’t be the traditional route. There’s also the possibility of webisodes and I think we even have an idea for a terrific Friday the 13th video game.”
Be sure to check out Luke Owen’s Top 13 Deaths from the Friday the 13th Franchise.
Originally published September 14, 2013. Updated April 11, 2018.
