It’s been quite the tumultuous production for Paramount’s Friday the 13th. Since they got the rights from Warner Bros. in a deal over Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, the movie has been pushed back several times (see here, here and here) and recently lost its director. David Bruckner (The Signal), who was attached for over a year, has now spoken out about what his Friday the 13th movie could have been.
“It was a proper reboot,” he told Hitflix, adding that the 1980s Paramount logo would have opened the film. “The final version that we were working on was with a writer Nick Antosca, who writes for Hannibal, or did, rather. It was a proper ‘end of the summer’ summer camp movie that took place in the late ’80s…I like to say that Dazed and the Confused was a huge inspiration to me in how we approached the character relationships, just because that’s a movie that captures a kind of a timeless – even though it takes place in the ’70s – a very timeless, nostalgic experience. And it’s very much – you chart several characters at once, it’s very much an ensemble piece, and you really are able to get at this coming of age vibe. I just wanted to see a movie where you’re that invested in everybody and [then] Jason Voorhees [shows up].”
The latest news from the Friday the 13th reboot/sequel is that it’s now being written by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners).
Originally published February 19, 2016. Updated November 14, 2022.
