After trial time, carnage time: Friday 13 will come back in several forms, including a thirteenth film and a new video game.
A few days ago, we deplored the absence of thirteenth Friday 13. Indeed, the remake of 2009 was indeed the twelfth part of the horror saga started in 1980. If it stopped net despite the success of Marcus Nispel’s film, It is partly because of a trial Who opposed Sean S. Cunningham, the director of the original (who has become producer of the suites) and Victor Miller, his screenwriter. The latter demanded a property right on the franchise, based on an American law which authorizes the transfer of copyright after 35 years.
Started in 2016, the trial ended in 2021, after a first call, on the recognition of Miller as entitled. But the verdict is more complex than that. Cunningham keeps, for example, the control of international rights. And above all, he retains the rights of the consequences, on which the screenwriter was not involved. However, it is in these suites that the famous killer with the hockey mask was really born. In short, it is a hell of a puzzle that has paralyzed the saga at length. But crossing the desert is soon over for this dear Jason Voorhees.
Friday 13: the resurrection
Adolescent butcher’s lovers will have for their money in the years to come, because Friday 13 will come back with very much pump. First, there is The prequel series Crystal Lakeproduced by Victor Miller and the famous A24 distributor for the Peacock platform. Despite a cataclysmic production which led to the return of the showrunner Bryan Fuller in 2024, it is still in production. Now overseen by Brad Caleb Kane, she bypasses the bag of legal nodes, the television rights not being affected by the quarrel.
But the announcement of a panel entitled “Jason Universe” At the Comic-Con de San Diego, scheduled for July 25, 2025, suggested that the saga had not said its last word. In addition to new behind the scenes of the series, several announcements have actually been made by the company Horror, Inc, which therefore always manages the rights of the cinema license. Obviously, the goal is to relaunch it with a campaign celebrating its 45th anniversary.
At the center of this campaign, There will be a short film entitled Sweet Revenge And who will officially return the killer. Scheduled for August 13, 2025 and sponsored by the cider brand (???) Angry Orchard, it should stage a good old teen massacre in the great tradition of the 1980s. At least, that’s what the trailer broadcast in stride suggests. It will be directed by Mike P. Nelson, behind the Fadasse reboot of Mortal detour and the future reboot of Sweet night, bloody night.
And that’s not all, because the vice-president of Horror, Inc, Robbie Barsamian, confirmed the development ofA new video game and a new suite.
“I can tell you that a new suite and a new video game are at the top of our list. This is what we currently devote most of our energy. And I can finally tell you that we are in the ability to materialize it all. Although it is not officially announced with our partners today, the two arrive. They are both in development and they both arrive. »»
Players will be delighted to learn the news a few years after the servers of the previous title, Friday the 13, The Gamebecause of the trial. Fans had even tried to resuscitate this asymmetrical multiplayer game before receiving the letter from a Horror lawyer, inc … As for the film, it remains to be seen whether it will take over from the 2009 remake or that of the first saga (the most likely hypothesis). During his last adventure, Jason faced his nightmarish counterpart in Freddy vs. Jason. The masked killer had come out more or less victorious from the fight.