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Even Kane Hodder is Hungry for ‘Friday the 13th’ to Return from the Grave
No, he probably won’t be involved. But he wants it anyway.
Despite a couple iterations of a Friday the 13th reboot *almost* getting off the ground in recent years, the franchise has remained dead for an uncharacteristically long period of time. In fact, we are currently in the midst of the longest stretch of time between Friday the 13th movies in history: at the time of writing this, it’s now been over 9 years!
What shape will Friday the 13th take once it’s finally brought back to life? We really have no idea at this point, but it’s likely that it’ll be Warner Bros. that produces the next installment in the franchise; the studio, after all, regains the rights this year. Then there’s that lawsuit from original writer Victor Miller, mucking things up further.
Whatever the hell is going on, Kane Hodder, who of course played Jason more than any other actor over the years, tells We Got This Covered that Friday needs to return.
“You’ve gotta do one more Friday movie,” Hodder told the site. “It’ll be the thirteenth one.”
Indeed, the next installment in the franchise would be the thirteenth Friday the 13th movie, which would needless to say be a pretty cool landmark for the franchise.
Here’s hoping we have some actual news for you in the coming months.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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