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Breaking: ‘Friday the 13th’ Has a New Director!
Jason Voorhees is one step closer to a return as Breck Eisner is in talks to direct the next installment of Friday the 13th for Platinum Dunes and Paramount Pictures, Bloody Disgusting can confirm.
Prisoners scribe Aaron Guzikowski turned in his screenplay last month, which Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller called an “origin-ish” story.
Jason’s mother, Pamela, is going to make some sort of appearance in the new incarnation, as is his father, Elias (I’m told he’s actually in the script quite a bit).
“We’re going to go back and we’re going to meet that family,” Fuller told Yahoo back in June, speaking of the Voorhees clan. Form confirmed, adding, “We’re going to meet the family. You’re gonna meet Pamela, Elias, and Jason. And you’re gonna see how it all happened.”
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Eisner directed The Crazies, a fantastic remake of George A. Romero’s classic horror film, as well as Lionsgate’s The Last Witch Hunter, which starred Vin Diesel. He was spent years attached to direct a remake of The Creature From the Black Lagoon for Universal, as well as Escape From New York for New Line.
David Bruckner was previously attached to direct from a screenplay by Nick Antosca. While Eisner is a less inspired pick than Bruckner, I’m definitely not shaking my head at the decision. I’d give it a solid B+.
As of this writing the plan is for Jason to return on Friday, January 13, 2017, although October 13th, 2017 is more likely.
Released by Eli Roth’s label The Horror Section last year, Joe Begos (VFW, Christmas Bloody Christmas) horror movie Jimmy and Stiggs is getting an official spinoff movie.
Sebastián De Caro has acquired the Argentine spin-off rights to Jimmy and Stiggs from The Horror Section, and his spinoff movie will follow new characters in Argentina.
The title? Burger Night: Luli, Magda & Lore. Eli Roth and Joe Begos will Executive Produce the film, which centers on the same alien threat from Jimmy and Stiggs.
Variety reports this afternoon that the film will feature an all-female cast.
Agostina Palazzolo (“Ciclón), Agustina “Papry” Suásquita (Netflix’s “Envious”) and Maia Tarcic (“Letters to My Ex”) will star in Burger Night: Luli, Magda & Lore.
“I am thrilled with the cast — these are women of extraordinary talent, true cinema lovers, brave and wild. They are going to surprise everyone. Each one understands her character perfectly and they all fell in love with the original material,” Sebastián De Caro said.
In Jimmy and Stiggs…
A perfect storm of lousy news sees out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy spiral into a bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing their return, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war. Begos stars alongside Matt Mercer (Contracted), practical alien puppets, and a whole lot of gore captured on 16mm film.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review, “The world needs more playful, gonzo small-scale-yet-apocalyptic horror films like Jimmy and Stiggs. It’s a movie that has constant tricks on display and perpetually sprays blood in the audience’s face, but there’s an earnest center to it all.”
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