So the back and forth continues like a Maria Sharapova/Venus Williams tennis match (Yes these are the only womens tennis players I know of). We’ve learned today from arrow in the head that the new upcoming “Friday the 13th” film will officially be titled Friday the 13th The Legend. The film also will not be a prequel to or a remake of “Friday the 13th”, but rather will fit somewhere in the timeline between “Friday the 13th:Jason Takes Manhattan” and “Jason Goes To Hell:The Final Friday”. The scooper who informed AITH of this also gave them some more juicy bits about the upcoming new Jason movie. Read on below for more.
A Scooper tells AITH…
This past weekend, screenwriter Mark Wheaton turned in a ninety-six page draft regarding his plans for the newly announced Friday the 13th re-imagining. After spending much of my Saturday afternoon Xeroxing copies for studio heads (including producer Brad Fuller and the now-directing John Liebesman), I was able to take an hour break and skim through Jason’s newest slay-fest. Each day I’ll give you a “taste” of some of the more interesting sequences of the script, starting with the opening.
FIRST OFF: There is not a single reference to JASON X or FREDDY VS. JASON to be found within the story. Although the exact date for the sequence of events that are occurring is never mentioned, the film takes place somewhere between the events of JASON TAKES MANHATTAN and JASON GOES TO HELL.
This film, titled Friday the 13th: The Legend, opens in the style of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter with a group of just arrived Crystal Lake camp counselors sharing tales of the infamous Jason Voorhees among a campfire. I’m interested to see how this will play out, because they make reference to several of the more stand-out kills of the first eight films (i.e. sleeping bag pounding, wheelchair victim, cracking of the Sheriff in pt. 6) as wells as some of the “deaths” that Jason endured (particularly the butchering in pt. 4’s finale).
It sounds like New Line just wanted to do a back to basics, balls to the wall, new Jason flick set at Camp Crystal Lake. It also sounds like they are fully aware of how bad “Jason Takes Manhattan” and “Jason Goes to Hell” were and this might be some sort of attempt to make up for both movies. Either way, “Friday the 13th:The Legend” is expected out in 2007.
