Friday not a remake
In a brief post today, Shock Till You Drop tells us what we already know: the upcoming FRIDAY THE 13TH film will not be a remake.
Well, duh. Any decent horror fan knows that Jason Voorhees did not really take up the machete until the first sequel, and there was little chance that even the most half-assed Hollywood producer would be stupid enough to make a new movie about Jason’s mother killing off camp counselors.
Without clear sourcing, the article goes on to tell us that the film will feature a “leaner, meaner, faster Jason Voorhees” and that we should imagine the story takes place “somewhere between parts two and four.”
A rather vague pin-pointing of the time frame, to be sure. Are they hinting that the new Friday is a remake of PART III? Or merely that it incorporates some elements from that film (this was the one that first put Jason in a hockey mask, after all)?
In any case, the new FRIDAY will be directe by Marcus Nispel (who also helmed the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake), from a screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. One imagines that Nispel (and presumably his screenwriters) are relived to be working on a franchise that, despite its popularity, is not to hard to top, in terms of quality.
Expect the new FRIDAY to open on February 13, 2009.
