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 […]
The Last Witch Hunter director Breck Eisner in talks for next Friday the 13th movie
It looks like the next instalment of the Friday the 13th franchise has found a new director following the departure of David Bruckner (V/H/S) in December, with Entertainment Weekly revealing that The Crazies and The Last Witch Hunter helmer Breck Eisner is in talks for the oft-delayed project. The new chapter in the long-running slasher series is […]
New Friday the 13th movie will revisit Jason’s origin and feature Pamela Voorhees
Earlier this month producer Brad Fuller provided an update on the next instalment of the Friday the 13th franchise, stating that they “are on the right track” after numerous delays, and now Fuller has offered up a few more details on the film, revealing that it will revisit the origin of Jason Voorhees – and […]
Friday the 13th producer says next instalment is “on the right track now”
It’s been seven years since Jason Voorhees last stalked Camp Crystal Lake in the 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th, and since then fans of the slasher series have suffered a number of false starts as production company Platinum Dunes struggle to take the franchise forward. In that time, we’ve had a sequel to the […]
David Bruckner talks about what his Friday the 13th movie could have been
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 […]
Friday the 13th reboot loses its director, gains another new script writer
The seemingly never-ending saga of the latest reboot to the Friday the 13th franchise has hit another roadblock today as The Wrap are reporting that the film has lost its director. V/H/S and The Signal helmer David Brucker has been attached to the project for over a year now, but has now left the project. […]
Friday the 13th reboot delayed again, will now be released in 2017
Through a deal with Warner Bros. over the distribution rights to Interstellar, Paramount Pictures picked up the rights to once again produce movies based on Friday the 13th. But since then, the road back to Camp Crystal Lake hasn’t been plain sailing. Originally slated for release on March 3rd, 2015, Friday the 13th was pushed back […]
Die Hard Rebooted: 10 Other Franchise Reboots That Failed to Launch
Luke Owen looks at the failed franchise reboots… Rebooting a franchise isn’t just an idea anymore, it’s a formula. If you have a pre-existing franchise with a pre-existing audience, reboot it. And then if that doesn’t work, just reboot it again. We live in a world where we have three different attempts at creating a sustaining […]
Writers hired for Friday the 13th TV series
There hasn’t been much development on the Friday the 13th TV series since it was announced last year, but now we’ve discovered who will be writing it. Deadline are reporting that Steve Mitchell & Craig Van Sickle, who created the NBC show The Predator back in 1996, have been hired to pen the series. The series […]
Friday the 13th producer Brad Fuller confirms the new movie will not be found footage
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 […]
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