We have literally no idea when the legal battle between Sean Cunningham and Friday the 13th writer Victor Miller will be settled, which means that the franchise’s future is still currently in serious limbo. At this time, Warner Bros./New Line now hold the distribution rights whenever a green light is given, but we’re just not at that point in time… not yet, at least.
Whenever a new Friday the 13th project is legally allowed to move forward, however, the guys behind Platinum Dunes hope to be on board the ship. Dunes produced the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th and had been involved with subsequent franchise installments that never got off the ground, and it seems they haven’t given up yet.
Speaking with We Got This Covered, Dunes’ Andrew Form keeps the hope alive.
“There’s a lawsuit going on and the rights are a little messed up. But rest assured, we are doing everything we can to be involved with that and we wholeheartedly believe that another version, another incarnation of Friday the 13th, needs to be made and brought out to the world,” Form confidently told the site. “We’re gonna do everything we can to do it. Every year, we look at the schedule and say, ‘When’s the next Friday the 13th? When can we have a movie ready?’ We love Jason and we hope we can make another one.”
He continued, “Friday the 13th is the one for us, because we were so close to filming that version about a year and a half ago, and we loved the screenplay we had and we were so close on that one. I think that’s the one out of everything we’ve done in the past… I think Jason is the one right now for us that we’d love to get our hands on.”
With it now being almost 10 years since the release of Marcus Nispel’s remake, we’ve passed the longest stretch of time without a new Friday the 13th movie in history. Crazy, eh?
