That would be awesome. As long as they don't do a prequel I'll be happy. If it does go into Jasons past I'm hoping its just hinted at and then we can make up our own minds.
I didn't even mind the remake that much. I loved the first 10 mins but then it turned into the same old thing. So much more could have been done with a Jason hunter and it just didn't turn out to be anything.
I've always heard that the sequal for that remake was going to be set in the winter. I would have loved to have seen Jason killing in the snow.
I don't really see how they could do a prequel, unless they were to do a movie about Jason growing up all alone in the woods. The novelization of Friday The 13th Part 2 explored that aspect of Jason's past a little bit. Turns out that the rash of fires was from Jason squatting in the cabins while living alone in the woods. He built a fire in the fireplace to keep warm, but didn't keep control of it very well and burned the place down a few times. But an entire movie about that isn't going to be very interesting to watch. For one thing, Jason doesn't speak. It'll be 90 minutes with virtually no dialogue. For another, Jason didn't start killing until he took revenge on Alice Hardy for killing his mother. So a 90 minute prequel to a slasher film with no slashing? No thank you.
I suppose they could do a movie adaptation of the Friday The 13th comic "Pamela's Tale" story arc. When Pamela Voorhees picks up Annie in the first movie, she tells Annie about her life. Her marriage to Elias Voorhees (who was an abusive drunk), her escape from him (which included chopping him up with an axe and blowing up their trailer), her moving to the town of Crystal Lake, settling down, giving birth to Jason, etc. In the comic, Jason always had a penchant for violence (he used to torture and kill small animals). Then Pamela gets a job cooking at Camp Crystal Lake and brings Jason along. It ends with Jason drowning, Pamela going apes**t nuts, then murdering the two counselors from the teaser opening of the first movie (who, in the comic, were the two who were supposed to be watching Jason when he drowned). The story ends with Pamela pulling up to the camp in her jeep and Alice comes running out of the cabin expecting to find Steve Christy. I suppose that
could work, but again it would be a slasher film with very little if any actual slashing.
I kinda like the idea of Jason killing in the snow too. There was a couple of issues of the Friday The 13th comics that took place in the winter time. But I can understand why the studios would be reluctant to make such a movie. For one thing, shooting winter scenes requires one of two things. Actually shooting during the winter time, or shooting on a sound stage in fake snow. I suppose they could cover an actual summer camp in fake snow as well, I'm just not sure which of these is most most cost effective. Real snow would likely be most cost effective, but it's also most unpredictable. You could be scheduled to shoot a scene that takes place after the snow has let up, but you find yourself in the middle of a virtual blizzard. You might be scheduled to shoot a scene that takes place during a snow storm, and there's not a cloud in the sky. Also, with take after take of people running through the snow and getting chopped up, it'll be very time consuming and expensive to cover up the actors' tracks and the fake blood spatter each and every time. Setting the movies during the summer is quicker, cheaper, and easier. And often times that's what the bottom line is in deciding on a movie script to green light.
Nancy.
