Sean Marshall 2017 is definitely going to be the year of the most anticipated horror reboots. Not only are we going to get Stephen King’s IT reboot next fall, we’re also going to get a Friday the 13th remake that will tackle the series in a different light. Brad Fuller & Andrew Form, producers on the reboot, sat down with Collider & discussed their approach on the next Friday the 13th film.
Fuller & Form had this to say, when asked about why the reboot has taken so long to release:
“In terms of fun, making [the 2009 film] was so fun. The cast was great, we were in a great setting, everyone got along. We had a lot of fun making that movie and we always wanted to go back to Crystal Lake and make another one. There were so many obstacles to surmount to get to where we are today. I’m not going to bore you with all of them but for a long time, there was a rights issue between Paramount and Warner Bros. Then there was an execution issue. At one point, the studio wanted us to make a found-footage version of that movie and that was deeply concerning to us because we didn’t think we could execute the movie in the right way if it was a found-footage movie.”
When asked about the found footage Friday the 13th reboot, they responded:
“No, Jason is a POV movie. So, it was very hard to wrap our head around how you would do a Friday the 13th that was found footage, knowing that we really need the Jason perspective of watching. We didn’t want to break the DNA of that. We also battled: do we do a sequel to the original? Do we pick up where we left off with Jared and Amanda at the end of the movie? Somehow, that didn’t find a home. So, it’s been eight years. It will be eight years since we made the last one. I’m here to say that we found the location. We have found the lake, we have found the camp. We found an amazing script by Aaron Guzikowski. Breck Eisner is directing the movie. That movie is shooting in early Spring.”
When asked about the new direction the film is going in, Fuller & Form said:
“There’s been a lot of mileage between the 1st one and the 13th one. What we don’t want to do is alienate the audience who hasn’t seen the preceding 12 Friday the 13th movies. Aaron Guzikowski’s job, as challenging as it is, is to come up with a movie where if you haven’t seen any go the other ones, you can still come and see this one and love it and not feel like you’ve missed out on anything. And if you have seen the other ones, we want this to feel fresh. That’s what took the longest amount of time: coming up with a story and then executing a script that fulfills both those mandates.”
The Friday the 13th reboot will start shooting this spring. The film will be directed by Breck Eisner & will be written by Aaron Guzikowski. The film has no release date as of yet.
