Movie producer Brad Fuller is currently enjoying the iminent success of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, on which he is an executive producer. While supporting the movie ready for its launch next week, Fuller clarified to MovieWeb a misunderstanding from a previous statement which had led fans to believe that the new Friday the 13th reboot would not feature the series' title character Jason Vorhees...
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“It was a misquote. I had just said ‘I don’t know who would play Jason Voorhees. Because I don’t know what age he would be, or how we would use him. Are we clear about that? That was the original context of the question. ‘Is Derek Mears going to be playing Jason?’ I said , ‘I don’t know who the character is going to be, or at what point in his life we are going to be engaging in him with.’ Somehow that became, ‘He’s not going to be in the movie.’ But of course he’s going to be in the movie!”
The original Friday the 13th, made in 1980, was recently remade in 2009 starring Supernatural star Jared Padalecki, yet due to a mixed response commercially, critically and from fans, studio Paramount Pictures have decided to try again, with another reboot in development, to be released November 13, 2015, which co-incidentally is on a Friday.
The 2009 remake weaved the narratives of the first four original movies together into one story, with Jason's mothers actions acting as exposition, and a group of youngsters being picked off one-by-one by Vorhees at the now derelict Crystal Lake camp. Originally, however the movie was to be an origin story, telling of the events before the first movie.
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While both approaches, in theory, would make good movies, with the right script, director and the right cast. A reboot on par with Rob Zombies Halloween may suit the Friday the 13th franchise better - an origin story that charts the characters path from their tragic pasts, up to a blood curdling present. If Paramount Pictures were to take this route, Scified Dark would however suggest a better "present day" than seen in Rob Zombies aforementioned remake...
Tell of Jason's conception, birth, early upbringing and tragic death, followed by his mothers revenge, and then for the present day, Jason rises from the lake to get revenge for his and his mothers death! Make Mrs. Vorhees overbearingly obsessive. Make the counselor responsible for Jason's death a nice person that was actually nice to Jason beforehand (like in the original). Avoid, but play to genre cliche's to tease and trick the audiences expectations. And give it a damn good twist at the end...
