After several years of back and forth, with a legal battle for the rights of the brand involved, the saga of Friday the 13th (Friday The 13th) was scheduled to return to the screens with a new series. This production had been promoted with the title Crystal Lake and, according to previous reports, it would reach the screen Peacock sometime this year.
Although we already saw Jason Vorhees die and revive in the most bizarre ways, returning from hell itself and traveling to space, this proposal began to arouse some curiosity among fans of the saga about some of those involved. In the first instance, the renowned company A24 was behind the production, while Bryan Fuller of Hannibal would work like showrunner. The team was also added Victor Miller (author of the original classic) as executive producer and Kevin Williamson of screamlinked as a screenwriter.
However, not everything may have gone well with that formula since in the last few hours the rumor about the cancellation of Crystal Lake. He insider of the industry, Jeff Sneiderreported that A24 had backtracked on the series, whose filming was scheduled for this year.
“It is unclear whether this is a permanent or temporary decision, as A24 did not comment. Perhaps Peacock will help businesses shed more light on this project, which was announced back in 2022″, expressed the informant through his official website. Subsequently, the report of Sneider It was partially denied by another renowned specialized media. The latter highlighted that although the series is still underway, the project is facing “a complete remodel”.
At the moment it is unknown the scope of this decision by the studio and how long it will delay the production of the series. Previously, Fuller had confirmed that they had planned the arc for three seasons and that the budget per episode will be 5 times greater than what was counted in Hannibal.
Although it had initially emerged that the story would be limited to recounting the events of the first film of Sean S. Cunningham (given that A24 only had these rights), later the showrunner of Crystal Lake confirmed that they had received the green light to explore the entire franchise. This means that it will not be limited to just telling the story of Pamela Vorheesbut also that of Jason.
“We can use everything. We can go to hell, we can go to space. That doesn’t mean we’ll do all those things, although if we go for 10 seasons I’ll be pushing hard to go to space.” I joked. Fuller. “As a streaming series, we have the rights to do everything under the ‘Friday the 13th’ umbrella. The movie rights are a completely different thing. They’re tied up in New Line Cinema and they’re super messy. They probably won’t be unraveled anytime soon, but as far as we in the television industry are concerned, we have access to everything ‘Friday the 13th’“, completed the showrunner.
At the moment, neither Peacock neither A24 have responded to rumors about the cancellation of Crystal Lake nor of his creative reboot.
