Blumhouse government Ryan Turek reveals the studio needs to deliver again the Friday the thirteenth franchise after their work on the Halloween sequel trilogy and the upcoming The Exorcist: Believer. The upcoming Exorcist film will jumpstart a brand new trilogy co-written and directed by David Gordon Inexperienced and ignore previous franchise installments, save for the unique. Inexperienced additionally helmed Blumhouse’s Halloween trilogy, which rebooted the franchise after the 1978 unique and ignored all different sequels past that.
In an interview with Inverse for The Exorcist: Believer‘s launch, Turek revealed which franchise the studio want to get their fingers on to revive subsequent, and it’s none aside from Friday the thirteenth. The chief explains that he would love to return to the fundamentals of what made the franchise so memorable within the first place whereas additionally expressing his love for the sequence as a complete. Try what he stated on the matter under:
Blumhouse has efficiently rebooted Halloween to industrial success, even when the crucial reception for Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends wasn’t on par with the 2018 reboot. And whereas the studio is ready to see if the identical success can be replicated with Inexperienced’s Exorcist trilogy, a revival of Friday the thirteenth has been deliberate for fairly a while. A24 and Peacock have already introduced a prequel tv present titled Crystal Lake, though information of a movie reboot has been comparatively quiet.
For the reason that launch of the 2009 Friday the thirteenth film, each Warner Bros. and Paramount have wished to launch one other franchise installment however have had problem getting it made. When Warner Bros. relinquished rights to the franchise to Paramount in 2013, one other film was in improvement with Platinum Dunes and had a number of administrators hooked up to the challenge till it was in the end canceled in 2017. Since then, there was curiosity in reviving the franchise, however no stable solutions on whether or not or not audiences will get one other Friday the thirteenth film.
However with Blumhouse seemingly excited about reviving Friday the thirteenth, issues might change rapidly. The studio has produced quite a few successes on the field workplace and could be higher positioned to supply stated revival that critics and audiences would love. Ought to The Exorcist: Believer show considerably profitable on the field workplace, it will be straightforward to persuade the present house owners of the Jason Voorhees-fronted franchise to collaborate with Blumhouse on a possible revival of one in all horror cinema’s most iconic franchises.
Supply: Inverse