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When actor Walt Gorney, playing the role of ‘Crazy Ralph’ in the original 1980 Friday the 13th movie (not to mention his return the following year in the sequel) intoned to a fresh batch of camp counselors that they were “all doomed” and that Camp Crystal Lake had “a death curse”, the actor might as well have been peering decades into the future and catching a glimpse at the seemingly jinxed horror movie franchise which just can’t seem to catch a break. It’s been no less than fifteen years since hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees last stalked nubile young teens in a feature film and since then…silence, the rights to produce new films in the franchise tied into legal knots which would send Harry Houdini running for a bottle of Anacin in a fit of impotent frustration. And, in 2024, it looks as if the characters created by Victor Miller and Sean Cunningham might be benched for another fifteen years if the news we hear from our Corey Feldman fanatics over at Variety is indeed true.
A24 and Bryan Fuller, showrunner for the proposed Peacock ongoing Friday the 13th prequel television series, Crystal Lake, have come to a parting of the ways according to the Hannibal scribe.
In an unexpected announcement via Twitter, Fuller hit Friday fans with some disappointing news as far as his continued involvement with Crystal Lake goes.
“Adapting classic horror is something I have some experience with,” Fuller began in his statement. “These shows require a vision that elevates and transforms, as well as delivers what audiences have come to expect, which is an ambitious and risky endeavor. It requires people to take the leap with me. When it works, as with HANNIBAL, the results can be powerful for the storytellers and the audience. I couldn’t be more proud of the work my co-showrunner Jim Danger Gray and I were able to accomplish with our brilliant writing staff despite the challenges we faced. For reasons beyond our control, A24 has elected to go a different way with the material. We hope the final product will be something Friday the 13th fans all over the world will enjoy.”
Though it’s bad news to lose Fuller, a talent who really seemed to “get” the formula which made Friday the 13th tick, all is not yet lost. Sources confirm that production house A24 and Peacock are still intent on bringing Crystal Lake to TV sets across the globe, albeit with a new showrunner at the helm (at press time, a search for this mythical creature was still ongoing).
Will the show ultimately happen, reviving one of the biggest slasher phenoms of the 1980s? Only time will tell, campers; keep those machetes trained on Vents and we’ll keep everyone up-to-date on this latest wrinkle in the Friday the 13th offscreen saga!
