They haven’t yet decided whether the new Friday the 13th movie will tie back into the 2009 version, but he’s settling on a final direction now and narrowing it down to “two or three different” writers that they hope to hire in the next few weeks. While the writers of the 2009 film penned a script for a sequel that reportedly returned to a fully functional Camp Crystal Lake (more details on that take here), Fuller says the new film will depart from those ideas. You know, every time there's a drop of blood you have to change their wardrobe and shower people off. Moreover, just because the current trend is to make horror films for tiny budgets, Fuller intends to find a middle ground for the new Friday the 13th, somewhere between the 2009 reboot’s $20 million and The Purge films’ $2-3 million: Fuller says the core values of the franchise will remain intact, as the next film will involve Jason Voorhees, kids having sex and smoking weed, and will take place at camp. Oh yes, the next Friday the 13th movie is going back to camp. The plan is to start production at the end of the summer, when the weather is nice and it’s easy for the team to take over a camp to set up production.
As a result, the Friday the 13th sequel was put on the backburner.īut now, after teaming up with Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum on two very successful The Purge films, learning how to execute a horror film on a budget less than $20 million, Fuller is determined to get the cameras rolling on the new Friday the 13th movie this year. Despite the box office success of the 2009 reboot, the low-budget horror hit Paranormal Activity spurred studios to rethink their approach to genre material, and the allure of a $1-$2 million budget against a potential gross of $100 million was impossible for them to pass up. So why the delay? And what happened to the initial 2010-set sequel to Marcus Nispel’s successful reboot? In a new interview with Esquire, producer Brad Fuller shed some light on the Friday the 13th franchise and its future, revealing that there’s one big reason why the sequel didn’t move forward as planned: Paranormal Activity. Most recently, Paramount pushed the new Friday the 13th movie to May 2016, where it will now (hopefully) land. We’ve been promised a new installment in the franchise a few times now, as a follow-up to the 2009 reboot was first given an Augrelease date before being pushed back and re-assessed a number of times. What do you think of Kane Hodder potentially returning as Jason, though? Does the actor still have it in him to reprise what is arguably his most iconic role? As always, share your thoughts in the comments section down below.It’s fitting (and not entirely coincidental) that today of all days, details about the new Friday the 13th movie have arrived. Given Hodder’s physical size and apparent ability to keep his fitness, we wouldn’t mind seeing him go another round as Jason in whatever film comes out of the current legal deadlock over the Friday the 13th rights.
Outside of his turns as Jason Voorhees, Hodder has also played Leatherface, Victor Crowley in the Hatchet franchise, and even Freddy Krueger, or at least his glove anyway, in Jason Goes the Hell: The Final Friday. Whether or not the horror series’ producers are as keen to bring Hodder back is another question, although it doesn’t appear that bad blood was behind him being dropped for Freddy vs. The performer has also been happy to discuss what made his work in the franchise so unique, as well as sharing some of his ideas for a future Friday the 13th picture.
The stuntman and actor has long been a vocal fan of the series, regularly appearing in costume for convention signings, including as the cybernetically enhanced Über Jason last year.