A Friday the 13th series is in development over at The CW network in the US. The new series will tie in to the famous film series, unlike the 1980s version, that borrowed the name from the franchise, but little else.
Deadline reports the new series will take place in the same ‘universe’ and Jason Voorhees and the happenings at Crystal Lake. Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle (The Pretender) are behind the new show.
The trade blog spoke to Long Michell about the new series.
[quote_box_center]“I don’t think we really wanted to do a show about a guy with a machete chasing girls in tube tops. We couldn’t do that on a weekly basis… So what ends up happening is, a cop comes into town, looking for his brother. He realizes his brother was there searching into the past murders, and realizes that his personal story is tied into Jason’s personal story.”[/quote_box_center]
Long Michell added that the existence of the actual movies could also play a part.
[quote_box_center]“What we’re going to do is basically acknowledge that the people came to this town after these killings happened, and they made all these movies. And now the town has a stigma. Our show is, ‘Here’s the true story. Here’s the real story of Jason.’ It’s been taken and exploited. So we have the young crowd who doesn’t know who he is except for what they’ve seen in the movies. The older crowd is afraid of him. We have a lot of people who have scars from him. The underlying thematic of the whole thing is that Jason is a monster in this town. He openly wears a mask. But everybody in this town wears a mask. Underneath those is the monster.”[/quote_box_center]
A 13th Friday the 13th movie is also due in cinemas in 2016, 26 years after the release of the original movie.
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