‘Friday the 13th’ Series Still in the Works?

For fans of the franchise, you may remember a year or two ago, CW announced it had a Friday the 13th series in the works. Only to kill it last year after getting all of our hopes up. Well, we have some news for you!

Recently on the Shock Waves Podcast, Sean Cunningham expressed there may still be hope for the show coming into existence.

He stated:

“The Friday the 13th series is still percolating and we’ve got a very good handle on how we want to do it, You need really smart show runners. I think the thing about Friday the 13th as a TV franchise… you have that problem – how the hell are you going to deal with Jason? Is he going to come out of the woods every week and smash another teenager against a tree and nobody is going to notice? Nobody knows who did it?”

“You have to service the fans. You can’t ignore them. Friday the 13th, at least in part, is going to be about Jason. So, how do you make sense of all of the contradictory stories that are out there, between Jason going to space, or versus Freddy, and all these other things? The assumption is this. Crystal Lake is a town that really exists, and a long time ago they had a series killer named Jason Voorhees, and then some Hollywood creep comes out and makes this exploitation horror movie called Friday the 13th. And then they make another one, and another one, and it just crushes the town. The town becomes the place that Jason built. And the stuff that happened, they know what really happened. The rest is Hollywood lore. There are people there that lived through it, and they’ll tell you what really happened. And so, what you can do is set up Crystal Lake as, more or less, like the town in JAWS – Amity Island. You have the town with all its prime movers in the town, but the town is located in an area that would allow Jason to exist in whatever form. But other things as well.

I would describe it as a place where if The X-Files’ Mulder and Scully wandered into this county, they never would have left!There’s so much weird shit going on! And then you have the family at the core of it. You’re not (always) following Jason around. It’s (also) the town and the town politics. It’s just such a rich pallet (of storytelling). And I’m really looking forward to it.

What do you think? Does this give you hope that a Friday the 13th show may happen? Fingers crossed!