At Silver Scream Con in Worcester, MA this past weekend, Friday the 13thcreator Sean S. Cunningham provided an update on the long-gestating TV series, Crystal Lake, including a potential release date.
“Last I heard, they’re talking about shooting it in Australia at the end of this year and releasing on Halloween 2025,” he reveals. “But I’ve heard versions of that story for so long, I don’t put a lot of credibility into it. There’s just so many things that can go sideways.”
He broke down the trials and tribulations the series has faced thus far:
“Some time ago, the rights expired on the original script, so then there became doubt about who owns what after 35 years. That was being worked out by lawyers, and we were trying to figure out what we were going to do. We were trying to do a TV series, which we actually got pretty far down the road on. I was very happy with that. I thought it was going to be a lot of fun, and then the rights thing blew up and the TV series got postponed, and then the pandemic arrived.
“Finally, A24 decided that they would hook up with Peacock and do a Friday the 13th TV series. They were gonna hire Bryan Fuller, a very good writer. In the world of television, the showrunner, the main writer, is the star. That’s the person you have to have complete faith in, because it’s not the ability to write one story; it’s the ability to tell a new story every week. That’s very, very hard, and very few people can do it.
“Bryan got the job, and it was greenlit. It was going forward, they started to set up the writers’ room, and they didn’t like the road he was going down. They felt it was gonna be too dark. So they abandoned itand then hired another writer [Brad Caleb Kane].”
She's great in Bloodline (although I assume you already know thatI would watch Linda in anything.
Even another god awful Hawkeye series lol.
That would be so awesome.
I would watch Linda in anything.
Even another god awful Hawkeye series lol.
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Linda Cardellini Set As Pamela Voorhees In ‘Friday The 13th’ Prequel Series ‘Crystal Lake’ On Peacock
Linda Cardellini has closed a deal to star as Pamela Voorhees in Peacock's Friday the 13th expanded prequel series Crystal Lake from A24.deadline.com
Cardellini’s Pamela is believed to be a mother who had given up a singing career to raise a special needs child and takes a dark turn when she loses her son.
Jason is a dead brand... Now Michael Myers there's a brand we can milk for all eternity.Yap, Yap, Yap.
Enough "concepts of a plan" and get that undead brick ****house back on screen.