As you guys know, every so often we get little updates on the long delayed "Friday The 13th" reboot/sequel - The Reel World caught up with producer on the status of the project...
Fuller said: Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) story has great characters…You kind of have to understand Jason Voorhees, so we go back and we kind of started over and work our way forward. [It'll be] origin-ish, but it’s an origin that no one has seen before. Obviously Pamela’s there, but it’s a little bit different from what you’ve seen before...
Back in November of last year Fangoria talked with with writer/director Sean S. Cunningham - the magazine asked Cunningham about the rumor winter sitting for Jason and the once talked about found footage setting..
FANGORIA: There have been rumors going around that the new FRIDAY THE 13TH film will take place during the winter as well as other ideas, can you comment on that?
CUNNINGHAM: They’ve been talking about that, but that’s not going to happen. I think what’s different for sure is Paramount was hung up on trying to do the found footage, which most fans, including me, just thought it wasn’t right. They weren’t saying yes to anything that didn’t work but they couldn’t find anything that would work. So finally, last February they gave up on it and decided to go in a completely different way and now they’re in the process of once again finding a better way to make it.
They need to break out of the core audience and add to that audience to get crossover traffic. I think the trick will be in taking Jason as he is and finding a way to involve him in slightly more complicated but purely primal stories, and that sounds kind of important but how do you do that? But I think if you can add that to what we already got then I think it really can sing.
