New Friday the 13th News – Brad Fuller Gives Details
Steve Barton
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What’s a Friday the 13th without some Friday the 13th news? Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller recently sat down with Esquire and dropped some fresh details regarding Jason’s return to the screen.
“There’s always been this supernatural aspect to these movie,” Fuller tells the mag. “It defies logic that you see Jason get killed in every movie, including ours, the 2009 one. And then he comes back, and no one’s ever really investigated what that is. So that’s something that I think about a little bit. Like it is supernatural, but what is he? Those are the things that we’re toying with. Nothing has been decided. But those type of things: How does he always come back?”
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According to the article, The Signal and V/H/S director David Bruckner, who remains on the project after being hired by Platinum Dunes in April 2014, planted the seed of direction in Fuller’s head.
“You can talk to [him] about a scene that’s happening on page 18, and [he] can tell you what the ramifications are on page 82. The way he spoke about the movie was brilliant. His segment of V/H/S was so scary and unsettling and felt very real. So often you see characters do things, and you just roll your eyes and say, ‘How could they be so stupid?’ And in that movie I didn’t feel that one bit. That dread is a very hard thing, a very hard emotion to convey on film, and he did it so well. That spoke volumes to us.”
“People traditionally want to understand exactly how and why things happen, and yet, something so odd happens at the end of these movies, and no one seems to question it. So people come to the movie with the expectation that the real villain will be killed and come back. And yet, we never toyed with that notion.”
If someone noticed, could Friday the 13th earn its own Dr. Loomis, the Halloween series’ in-the-know psychologist? Fuller approves of the comparison. “Those are the things that we’re asking ourselves. And we’ll see what comes of it.”
Fuller stressed his desire to keep the core values intact. It will involve Jason Voorhees. It will involve kids having sex and smoking weed. They will be at camp.
Fuller hopes to be filming by the end of summer this year, but so far no writers are attached. Stay tuned.
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