After the news of Michael Myers’ triumphant return in the stupidly titled “Halloween Returns,” Myers’ contemporary slasher villains are not going to sit on their laurels.
I wonder where the saturation point of dredging up old 80s and 90s franchises will land but apparently not here as both Freddy and Jason have rumored continuations in the near future.
A Friday the 13th series is apparently in the works at the CW which will feature the masked zombie/undeadish thing rather than whatever that anthology bullshit was that the previous series tried to pass off.
According to IGN, the series will take place around the infamous Crystal Lake that “takes a more “sophisticated” approach as a horror/crime thriller.” There is also talks of gritty and grounded. To that I say: how the hell can one make Jason Voorhees a gritty and/or realistic/ and/or grounded character considering he’s been dead for about seven movies?
The series will apparently focus on a detective searching for his brother who is presumed missing after visiting Camp Blood. An interesting premise for sure but wasn’t that basically done in several movies in canon? We’ll have to see how this one plays out on a weekly basis with a broadcast network. I’m guessing there won’t be any nudity.
On the other hand, Freddy’s back! Maybe that is.
The source is “The Tracking Board” (which I’ve never heard of before but whatever) and they claim that New Line (or whatever part of Warner Brothers they’ve been folded into) is looking to reboot the series even though that was the point of the completely terrible remake from 2010. Thus far, only David Leslie Johnson, writer of Orphan, is attached so perhaps this will flame out before it does anymore damage.
I’m still waiting on the Critters reboot.
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