Blumhouse needs to convey Friday the thirteenth — which hasn’t had a film in nicely over a decade — again to the large display.
The dispute over possession of the Friday the thirteenth is likely one of the most storied in horror film historical past. And whereas issues have settled over the previous couple of years, there’s one other studio that wishes in on the motion. Blumhouse — the studio behind the brand new Halloween trilogy and this month’s The Exorcist sequel Believer — is involved in making Friday the thirteenth the main focus of their subsequent large venture.
Talking with Inverse, Blumhouse producer Ryan Turek mentioned that Friday the thirteenth is certainly within the studio’s crosshairs (maybe by way of a speargun?). “Jason [Blum] and I are undoubtedly in settlement that Friday the thirteenth is the factor we’d like to get our palms on. I actually wish to return to the fundamentals. You don’t want too many components for a Friday the thirteenth movie. You want summer season camp, you want campers, and also you want Jason Vorhees in a masks.” Jason Blum has beforehand expressed curiosity in buying rights to Friday the thirteenth.
As for the extent of pleasure at Blumhouse over the potential to resurrect the Friday the thirteenth franchise, he added, “Hear, I’ve gone on the file saying Halloween is the final word slasher movie for me. That’s my favourite slasher movie of all time. However Friday the thirteenth as a franchise is one which I simply bow all the way down to. I simply love the whole lot about it. And if we had been capable of dwell in each worlds, like we do with Halloween, then to have the ability to dwell at Crystal Lake for some time can be so unbelievable.”
There hasn’t been a brand new Friday the thirteenth film because the terrible 2009 reboot. And whereas a Friday the thirteenth TV sequence (no, not *that* one) is deliberate, with authentic last woman Adrienne King set for a recurring function, it actually does really feel like one thing Blumhouse could as nicely sort out. In spite of everything, earlier than it went utterly off the rails, David Gordon Inexperienced’s Halloween films had been wanting like correct continuations of the tales and characters. And shortly followers will want extra Jason Voorhees, as Gun Media’s Friday the thirteenth online game’s personal license will expire this yr.
What do you assume? Would Friday the thirteenth be property for Blumhouse to sort out subsequent?