Friday the 13th franchise to return in 2015
The long-running horror franchise is to get rebooted, possibly with ‘found footage’ spin
He’s been dragged to hell, blasted into space and killed Kelly Rowland while fighting Freddy Krueger, but now the seemingly indestructible psychopath Jason Voorhees is back for the 13th Friday the 13th movie.
According to the Exhibitor Relations Twitter feed, a date of Friday 13th March 2015 has been set for the release.
The news follows a deal where Warner Brothers relinquished the franchise to Paramount (along with partial rights to a future South Park movie) so it could co-produce Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming Interstellar.
Horror journalist Ryan Turek tweeted last month that the film’s producers were fielding story treatments from a ‘found footage’ angle similar to movies like Cloverfield where the action takes place through supposed amateur video.
After the hockey-mask-wearing Jason was perpetually resurrected through eleven different movies, the horror series restarted itself with 2009’s Michael Bay-produced Friday the 13th, which became the second-most successful film in the franchise, netting over $90m (Dh330.4 million) worldwide.
