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 The Friday the 13th’s franchise was
rebooted in 2009 with the CW’s Jared Padalecki and Danielle Panabaker but the
film never got a follow up. Platinum Dunes producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form
want to make a new film but admit the project is in limbo. According to Fuller,
“One of the biggest heartbreaks of the last couple years was that we were about
to make that movie and it fell apart. That still hurts. The fans reach out to
us; Andrew doesn’t really engage because he’s not on Twitter, but I am and I
hear from the fans and that’s all they ask about. We get asked about that more
than anything else. Fans think it’s so simple, that if we want to make the movie
we can go make it, and that’s just not the case. There are rights issues;
originally, Warner Bros. owned the rights, then Paramount had them for a couple
of years, and now I think the rights are reverting back to Warner Bros. At the
same time, there’s this on-going lawsuit with Victor Miller. If there’s a
lawsuit hanging over the rights, its problematic; you can’t really make the
movie until that gets settled. And now the movie is at New Line, and we’ve made
a lot of movies with those guys, but that’s not our home studio anymore. So the
question is, does New Line want to make the movie with us? If they want to make
that movie with us, we will drop what we’re doing to make that movie. We had
such a great experience making Friday the 13th, it was a dream come true to
watch those movies as a kid and then be a part of it. So I don’t really have a
clear answer.” A script is out there that got a lot of praise but the film
collapsed weeks before shooting was supposed to start. And now if a new film is
going to be made it will not be from Platinum Dunes since they have decided to
stop remaking older horror films. This would seem to kill the planned remake of
The Birds. |
