With the remake and reboot fest happening in Hollywood, now is the time that a lot of 1980s franchises are coming back with force. Most if not all of the big franchises have come up in the conversation. Some of them are on board with coming back, yet so big properties are a no-show. Producer Brad Fuller has a little update on where the Friday the 13th franchise stands.
In a recent interview with Arrow in the Head, Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller spoke about the hardships that Friday the 13th is going through trying to make a comeback:
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One of the biggest heart breaks of the last couple years was that we were about to make that movie and it fell apart. That still hurts. The fans reach out to us; Andrew doesn’t really engage because he’s not on Twitter, but I am and I hear from the fans and that’s all they ask about. We get asked about that more than anything else.”
Fans think it’s so simple, that if we want to make the movie we can go make it, and that’s just not the case. There are rights issues; originally, Warner Bros. owned the rights, then Paramount had them for a couple of years, and now I think the rights are reverting back to Warner Bros. At the same time, there’s this ongoing lawsuit with Victor Miller. If there’s a lawsuit hanging over the rights, it’s problematic, you can’t really make the movie until that gets settled. And now the movie is at New Line, and we’ve made a lot of movies with those guys, but that’s not our home studio anymore.”
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So the question is, [does New Line] want to make the movie with us? If they want to make that movie with us, we will drop what we’re doing to make that movie. We had such a great experience making Friday the 13th, it was a dream come true to watch those movies as a kid and then be a part of it. So I don’t really have a clear answer.
It would be nice to have more slasher films back in the mix. Paranormal thrillers have a stranglehold on the horror market right now. Slasher films put the U.S. on the map in the horror genre, and to just let these films die would be a shame. Especially with horror films exceeding expectations at the box office.
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