Jason Will Be Unrelenting in New Friday the 13th
Steve Barton
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We, like you, are excited by the above headline, but we’ll be even more excited once the powers-that-be straighten out all the legal issues surrounding the next Friday the 13th film.
Variety recently caught up with Platinum Dunes producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form for an update on what’s to come in Crystal Lake.
Fuller: “This is the 13th Friday the 13th, and on some level that’s kind of magical that we are lucky enough to make the 13th Friday the 13th movie. The challenges are you don’t want to alienate the people that come to see the first 12, but at the same time you don’t want your audience who haven’t seen the first 12 to feel like, ‘I’ve missed out on all of this, and I’m not coming to see the 13th film.’ That’s where and why we were lucky enough to get Aaron Guzikowski, who is an amazing writer and who saw a way to bridge those two audiences and make a movie where if you haven’t seen a Friday the 13th movie, you know exactly what is going on; and if you have seen one, you are going to be smiling the whole way through because there are nods to everything that you know, but it is not imperative that you know those things to enjoy the film. We have made plenty of slasher movies, and what excites us about this one is that our characters aren’t just meat for Jason to butcher. These are real characters, which will hopefully make the bond with the audience that much stronger because you really care about the people in this film.”
Form: “But when it’s time for Jason to do his business…”
Fuller: “He’s busy.”
Form: “He does it, and we will not let anyone down because when it is time, it’s…”
Fuller: “It’s unrelenting.”
Stay tuned, campers.
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