Probably the most well-known slasher franchises round is coming again, however with out its iconic killer. Friday the thirteenth is getting a prequel collection at Peacock, which might be written and showrun by Bryan Fuller, referred to as Crystal Lake.
The collection will happen sooner or later earlier than the primary film, however received’t function Jason or his trademark hockey masks because of the continuing authorized battle over the franchise. Primarily, because of some unusual contracts, and some very protracted court docket battles, the rights to the collection are break up between two separate folks, one who owns the primary film, and one other who owns the sequels.
However, as Scream’s Ghostface needs us to recollect, Jason wasn’t the killer within the first film — his mother was. So whereas we might actually get a Mrs. Voorhees within the prequel collection, don’t count on Jason himself to be displaying up or doing any killing. That being stated, the concept of a summer time camp that’s often stalked by killers of 1 Voorhees selection or one other remains to be in all probability fairly fertile floor for a horror collection.
Friday the thirteenth is much from the primary slasher collection to get its personal spinoff collection, too. Within the early 2010s, there have been additionally spinoff and prequel collection for Scream, Psycho, and even Bryan Fuller’s personal Hannibal. Maybe much more surprisingly, the collection themselves ranged principally from good to nice, which a minimum of makes this new undertaking thrilling. Actually, there was even one other Friday the thirteenth present, referred to as Friday the thirteenth: The Sequence, which aired within the late ’80s and has been kind of forgotten since.
Fuller is a tv veteran creating a number of reveals over the past 20 years together with Lifeless Like Me, Star Trek: Discovery, American Gods, and the aforementioned Hannibal. Additionally behind Crystal Lake might be A24, which whereas recognized for films can also be the studio behind HBO’s Euphoria. There’s no phrase but on when Crystal Lake may come out, nevertheless it’s doubtless greater than a yr away.
