One of the 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, known as Crystal Lake.
The collection will happen in some unspecified time in the future earlier than the primary film, however gained’t function Jason or his trademark hockey masks because of the continued authorized battle over the franchise. Basically, because of some unusual contracts, and some very protracted courtroom 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 may definitely get a Mrs. Voorhees within the prequel collection, don’t anticipate Jason himself to be exhibiting up or doing any killing. That being mentioned, the concept of a summer time camp that’s continuously 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 way 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 at the least makes this new challenge thrilling. In reality, there was even one other Friday the thirteenth present, known as Friday the thirteenth: The Collection, which aired within the late ’80s and has been roughly forgotten since.
Fuller is a tv veteran creating a number of exhibits during the last 20 years together with Useless 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 would possibly come out, however it’s probably greater than a yr away.