If you were still worried about those old reports about that the next instalment in the iconic slasher series Friday the 13th adopting a found footage approach, you can now breathe easy as Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller has confirmed that those plans have been scrapped.
“I could just say that for a long time we were stalled,” Fuller tells Shock Till You Drop. “I think you guys reported that the movie was going to be a found footage movie and that was a road that we went down and tried to figure out. Ultimately, I think Michael, Drew and I felt that we couldn’t figure that out, so we kind of jettisoned that whole notion and we had to start over. We’re in the latter phases of that starting over and hopefully we’re getting a script in the next month or two, and we’ll go back to Crystal Lake.”
Asked about fan expectations and the negative reception to the found footage talk, Fuller responded that: “It absolutely weighs on me, and there have been many times when the fans have affected surely the way we think about, and in some cases the way we shot, some of the stories. Sometimes you have to go through a lot of bullshit in what they’re saying, but very often you’ll get a fan with such a great idea, or a great notion, and it’s meaningful to us. Listen, there was an outpouring of negative sentiment when it was revealed that Friday the 13th might have been a found footage movie. That was very clear to us that there was not a groundswell of support for that. That had tremendous amount of impact on us and only substantiated our concern about doing it as a found footage movie. Ultimately, the fact that the movie’s been delayed for a long time might be a good thing, because now the movie’s not going to be found footage.”
The new Friday the 13th – which is set to be directed by David Bruckner (V/H/S) – has suffered numerous delays, and is currently slated for release on May 13th, 2016, with Nick Antosca (Hannibal) penning the script.
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Originally published May 18, 2015. Updated November 7, 2019.
