Blumhouse Would Like To Reboot ‘Friday The 13th’
After they get done rebootingHalloween, Blumhouse would like to take a crack at aFriday the 13threboot.Jason Blum, president of the wildly successful horror (andWhiplash) distributor, says that the next franchise he’d like to set his sights on is the one that features hockey-masked slasher Jason Voorhees.
Blumhouse is currently in the process of rebooting theHalloweenfranchise, with David Gordon Green directing and co-writing with Danny McBride. It’s an exciting new step in theHalloweenseries, and Blumhouse doesn’t seem content to just stop at one classic franchise reboot. Speaking withCinePOP(viaMovieWeb), Blumhouse head honcho Jason Blum said that he’d be down to relaunch theFriday the 13thseries:
“Besides Halloween? You know, I really wanted to do Friday the 13th. I would love to do that movie. Maybe someday we’ll get do to that one.”
Launched in 1980, theFriday the 13thfranchise spawned 12 films (including a reboot). In case you don’t know, the franchise focuses on Jason Voorhees, an undead slasher who dons a hockey masks and slices and dices his way through horny teens. The series took Jason from the camp grounds of Camp Crystal Lake, to the mean streets of Manhattan, to space itself. There’s also a very popular video game based on the movies that I hear all the cool kids play.
The series was rebooted by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes in 2009, and while that film was a box office success, it failed to spawn sequels like the original franchise. Since then, there have been numerous plans to relaunch the series, none of them successful. 2009 reboot producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form wanted to make another film in the series, and Warner Bros. said they would release a film on June 04, 2025. That, obviously, never came to pass. Fuller eventually revealed that potential film was completely dead.
Beyond that, there were other plans, including a potential “found footage” sequel that was eventually killed due to fanoutrage. Eventually, the rights to the series passed from Warner Bros. to Paramount, and things were ramping up for a brand new film to begin production in 2017 with director Breck Eisner. But with less than six weeks go to before the start of principal photography, Paramount pulled the plug on the film,citingthe box office failure ofRingsas the reason. Now the future of the series is anyone’s guess.
As of now, there’s nothing official. This is a pipe-dream; something Jason Blum says he wouldliketo happen. But if Blumhouse can work out some sort of deal with Paramount to produce aFriday the 13threboot, Blum’s wish may just come true. The attention Blumhouse has been giving to theHalloweenreboot, going so far as to recruit originalHalloweendirector John Carpenter and original star Jamie Lee Curtis, indicates they’re committed to getting that film right. If they could apply the same sort of care toFriday the 13th, fans might be in for a treat.
