Jason Dies! Friday the 13th Reboot Shutdown

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Noooo. I was excited for this and it was supposed to start filming next month. :(

It's been in development hell for so long that I guess it isn't surprising.

FT13th is my favorite series, loved the reboot.


I just want my winter camp FT13th. At least we're getting the game this year. I loved what I saw in the beta.
 
brandonh83 said:
ehhh doubt they have anything to do with it.
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The only returning talent thus far is Charlie Clouser on scoring duties. Filming wrapped back in November, so it should already be deep in post production.

Surprisingly, they actually got a decent pair of filmmakers to work on this, as the Spierig Brothers previously did Predestination, which seems to have a lot of fans. I'm not expecting miracles, but I'm hopeful that it's going to be one of the better installments.
 
Sibersk Esto said:
I'll give Tom Mcloughlin's vision for 6 and the special effects guys on 7 some props.
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4, 6, and X are the only ones worth a shit, but I was talking specifically about Cunningham, since the comparison was being made to Miller & Mad Max.

Ryuelli said:
At least we're getting the game this year. I loved what I saw in the beta.
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Yeah, the game is probably the best way to revive this property, honestly.
 
Bloated hollywood, give this movie to roger corman with a new writer who gives a shit and watch this turn into the showcase for young talent it should be.
 
Snaku said:
This kind of Hollywood logic will always baffle the fuck out of me. The fuck does some lame ass J-horror American remake sequel have to do with Friday the 13th? Why was Tron 3 cnancelled because Tomorrowland was shit? I can't.
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Remember when they took the "of Mars" out of the John Carter movie title because Mars Needs Moms flopped or some shit?
 
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Htown said:
Remember when they took the "of Mars" out of the John Carter movie title because Mars Needs Moms flopped or some shit?
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Imagine if, instead of centering the film on Taylor Kitsch and calling it John Carter...

...they instead centered it on Lynn Collins, made Kitsch the supporting character, and called it "Disney's PRINCESS OF MARS"
 
Ridley327 said:
The only returning talent thus far is Charlie Clouser on scoring duties. Filming wrapped back in November, so it should already be deep in post production.

Surprisingly, they actually got a decent pair of filmmakers to work on this, as the Spierig Brothers previously did Predestination, which seems to have a lot of fans. I'm not expecting miracles, but I'm hopeful that it's going to be one of the better installments.
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I guess almost anything would be better than the later entries that Darren Bousman fucked up so bad. Like good lord as a director he really ran the series into the ground fast. I'll give him Saw 2 and 3, but man after that...
 
JDHarbs said:
I dream of what a Fury Road caliber reboot of Friday the 13th would be like.
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I've often thought about what a radically new Nightmare on Elm Street would be and my pitch would basically be using Dream Warriors as a springboard for an R-rated Chronicles of Narnia called, well, DREAM WARRIORS. Freddy shows up halfway through.

and then I watched THE MAGICIANS and said "god damn it"
 
This franchise sure isn't having the best luck nowadays with both this movie and that TV series cancelled.

The game looks like it's gonna turn out to be fun whenever they finish it at least.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
Imagine if, instead of centering the film on Taylor Kitsch and calling it John Carter...

...they instead centered it on Lynn Collins, made Kitsch the supporting character, and called it "Disney's PRINCESS OF MARS"
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. . .

Yes.
 
adj_noun said:
My heart's secret hope for that would be a Netflix documentary style series.
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That would be incredible...hopefully they'd do it in a similar vein to the book.

Jawmuncher said:
Good. He needs to rest a bit more before the next reboot hits.
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I tend to agree...was irked when I first read the news because some of the ideas being bandied around were interesting but this will probably be for the best in the long run....
 
How hard is it to make a Friday the 13th film? I thought the ideas they had for this new one were stupid to begin with. Here's an idea: a group of college kids go to Crystal Lake and get slaughtered. Set it in the snow. Profit.

The remake was fine; I myself just consider it a sequel with a human Jason since that's exactly what it is. The kills were mostly 'meh', but you can't say it wasn't a Friday flick.
 
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Really pisses me off in any case. 5 years to make a Friday the 13th flick, and even with the writer of Prisoners...they fucked it up.
 
Cheshire_Buddha said:
How hard is it to make a Friday the 13th film? I thought the ideas they had for this new one were stupid to begin with. Here's an idea: a group of college kids go to Crystal Lake and get slaughtered. Set it in the snow. Profit.

The remake was fine; I myself just consider it a sequel with a human Jason since that's exactly what it is. The kills were mostly 'meh', but you can't say it wasn't a Friday flick.
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I think so too. Every moment of the film is exaggerated, I believe, especially the camp and sex, to remind you of how funky the older movies were. The weak kills and minority characters bothered me.

I been thought they should have made a F13th in the snow.

As for this reboot? Well it hasn't even been 10 years since the last one.... I'm also wondering why it is so hard to get these movies made. Find a good writer, and good special effects, and I wouldn't care how low budget it looks. Hell, it's Jason, just get some good fx, and a good kill coordinator.

Really pisses me off in any case. 5 years to make a Friday the 13th flick, and even with the writer of Prisoners...they fucked it up.
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Edit: Wow ^ Next you'll tell me the new Rings movie is actually directed by Gore Verbinkski... I hope it's not.
 
I guess since the last reboot was part of the Transformers cinematic universe, it was all downhill from there.

See you in 5 years Jason.
 
DeathoftheEndless said:
Yeah, but that was a flash in the pan. I don't think a sequel or reboot would do nearly as well as that.
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True, I was just pointing that out. There's still clearly interest in the slasher genre, they just need to produce slasher films that aren't solely made to pander to teens, with all the typical cliches, and try something a bit different.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
It's creators made it specifically to draft off the slasher trend that was rising at the time. There was no real artistic intent on display by anyone not named Tom Savini.
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Don't know why people don't get that, especially since Sean Cunningham has never pretended otherwise and practically brags every time he's interviewed that it was a cash grab built entirely on the premise that every seven minutes there should be either nudity or a kill.
 
Matty77 said:
Don't know why people don't get that, especially since Sean Cunningham has never pretended otherwise and practically brags every time he's interviewed that it was a cash grab built entirely on the premise that every seven minutes there should be either nudity or a kill.
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That is a better premise than a lot of movies.
 
Fancyarcher said:
Not surprised. It's been in development for so long it was bound to get the axe or something else similar was going to happen. Guess this mean it's probably the end of Jason, for the time being anyway.



The last FT13 opened pretty big actually. Shame it was largely "boring" though.
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Key as I explained is opened. Everything week 2 on was hardcore tanking

disappeared said:
I guess almost anything would be better than the later entries that Darren Bousman fucked up so bad. Like good lord as a director he really ran the series into the ground fast. I'll give him Saw 2 and 3, but man after that...
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Saw 6 was great but that wasn't Bousman

So uh I guess your point stands lol
 
I'm perusing the IMDB page for the original and there's some serious gold on there

Betsy Palmer said that if it were not for the fact that she was in desperate need of a new car, she would never have taken the part of Pamela Voorhees. In fact, after she read the script she called the film "a piece of shit".
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One critic (Gene Siskel) was so angry at Betsy Palmer's role in the movie (which had angered many of her fans), that he published her address in his magazine, and encouraged people to write her and protest her. He published the wrong address.
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And this picture is completely ridiculous

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Sibersk Esto said:
Next? A new Halloween movie died when Dimension lost the distribution rights.
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That's the opposite. The dead Halloween sequel was revived at Blumhouse when Dimension lost the rights. The script hasn't even been written yet so that's pretty worrying, but Carpenter talked about the project recently. Fingers crossed.

And Jeepers Creepers 3 is happening so if both JC and Halloween are happening, I don't mind waiting for F13th, especially since the movie will likely be a piece of crap considering, at its best, the franchise was just ironically good (Jason X). There are better horror franchises to continue.

And I guess the Texas Chainsaw franchise is also dead following that nonsensical sequel.
 
Biggest-Geek-Ever said:
I'm perusing the IMDB page for the original and there's some serious gold on there
One critic (Gene Siskel) was so angry at Betsy Palmer's role in the movie (which had angered many of her fans), that he published her address in his magazine, and encouraged people to write her and protest her. He published the wrong address.
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Huh, that's... A pretty assholish thing to do.
 
JDHarbs said:
As much as I'd like to see more Jason, I'm not surprised this happened.

When was the last time we even had a decent slasher film? I think the genre is dead.
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The most recent ones I can think of are the two Laid to Rest movies and both Collector films (amazing), See No Evil and its weaker but worthwhile sequel, the Hatchet series (not my thing, but it has plenty of fans)...They're out there if you look for them.

Also, Scream Queens isn't a movie, but might be the best argument against the genre being dead. Amazing show.
 
Snaku said:
This kind of Hollywood logic will always baffle the fuck out of me. The fuck does some lame ass J-horror American remake sequel have to do with Friday the 13th? Why was Tron 3 cnancelled because Tomorrowland was shit? I can't.
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Hypothetically, it means the audience for nostalgic horror isn't quite what the studio anticipated. When you contrast this with the success of an original horror premise like Split, Paramount is probably wondering if paying for the licence is even worth it.

Which doesn't make a ton of sence. Tonally, a F13 reboot might be closer to Split than Rings. But you can at least see the logic.
 
I think the best way to go about doing a new Friday the 13th movie is to put an indie director on it and do it on a low budget.

They should get the guy that did Hush. I love Hush.
 
The premise involving Jason's father wasn't exciting in the least bit so I'm not surprised. This is one franchise where it's better to stick to the formula, anytime they try to branch out they piss off the fans or make one of the worst movies ever (JGTH). Give some indie up and comer a couple of million, set it in the 80's with a vintage look, go old school with it and have some fun. The new game has completely embraced the style of the original's and looks to be all the better for it.

At least I'll have Cult of Chucky later this year for my nostalgic slasher fix.

serenewarfare said:
I think the best way to go about doing a new Friday the 13th movie is to put an indie director on it and do it on a low budget.

They should get the guy that did Hush. I love Hush.
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Rumor is that the director of Hush (Mike Flanagan) was offered the new Halloween with Carpenter as Exec. Producer. Flanagan did give an interview where he said he already made his Halloween with Hush and would be too intimidated to try to follow Carpenter's original.
 
an utterly lousy concept for Jason dies, great.

hell, I think I disliked the proposed Jason origin story even more than the found footage Friday the 13th movie that they came close to making some years back when that fad was going strong.
 
DeathoftheEndless said:
As much as I enjoy the franchise, it's a product of its time. It wouldn't be the same made today and audiences don't care about slashers anymore.
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I don't think it's safe to say audiences don't care about slashers anymore. There's no evidence to support that at all.

The more modern slashers failed, because they were shit.
 
A Link to the Past said:
Why are they trying to do a big Friday the 13th sequel? It's not going to be successful. Just give it to an indie director, make a small-budget film, and get young talent.
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Yeah, they should make it a proper low-fi slasher movie with a budget of about $15 million and reliance on practical effects. I'm not fond of the indestructible Jason, but if they made it more of a tense cat and mouse film I think that'd work well.

I think they were going to do another Nightmare on Elm Street film as well. I wonder if that will have been affected.
 
JDHarbs said:
As much as I'd like to see more Jason, I'm not surprised this happened.

When was the last time we even had a decent slasher film? I think the genre is dead.
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The Final Girls

Triggerhappytel said:
Yeah, they should make it a proper low-fi slasher movie with a budget of about $15 million and reliance on practical effects. I'm not fond of the indestructible Jason, but if they made it more of a tense cat and mouse film I think that'd work well.

I think they were going to do another Nightmare on Elm Street film as well. I wonder if that will have been affected.
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15 million? Only if they spend it all on physical effects if not go early Saw budget: like 4 or 5 million.
 
Sibersk Esto said:
I'll give Tom Mcloughlin's vision for 6 and the special effects guys on 7 some props.
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Joseph Zito should get some love for his work on The Final Chapter. It's got a great mean streak a good slasher should have, it's paced well and has some of the series better performances. Plus , Tom Savini's effects bah God.


Ridley327 said:
Siskel's hatred of the slasher genre is legendary. Even Ebert wouldn't go as far as he did at times, and they were mostly in agreement on that subject.
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I think Ebert was worse. Go watch his reviews for Friday the 13th The Final Chapter and Nightmare on Elm Street 3. The man straight goes on a conspiracy theory rant that these movies exist for nefarious nihilistic reasons.
 
I'm like 100% sure eventually we'll get a better movie thanks to this. My guess goes to soft reboot being announced and in production in 1-2 years and also guessing it'll be actually good.
 
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