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Osgood Perkins Says He Would Love to Direct a ‘Friday the 13th’ Movie
Osgood Perkins has already established himself as a force to be reckoned with on the horror scene, with Orion’s Gretel & Hansel bringing Perkins’ visionary style to the big screen in the wake of The Blackcoat’s Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House giving him serious credibility in the eyes of horror fans. What’s next from Perkins, you ask?
Well, if he has his way, he’d love to direct the 13th Friday the 13th movie. At the same time, of course, he’s aware that the franchise’s legal situation is quite the mess right now.
Speaking with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast this week, Perkins briefly touched upon what he’d like to do with the Friday franchise, if he was ever given the chance.
“There was a time when I was kind of… I made the rounds… the only “guy” I wanted to be was… I would’ve happily been the guy to do Friday the 13th again,” Perkins explained.
He continued, “The rights to that are kind of like a real mess…it’s a hard one. And there’s a weird thing like, you can have the rights to the title but you can’t have the rights to the mask. The mask and title are held by different people – I think Lebron James, actually, is involved. It’s the kind of thing like, you can’t have one without the other.”
“I would do that. I’d be thrilled to do that. That’s probably the one for me. I didn’t want to do Halloween, for instance. I felt like that had been done. Jason is my guy. Also, it’s the thirteenth one. Just call it ’13’ or something.”
Speaking further about the Friday the 13th franchise, Perkins went on to indicate that he had actually read the script penned by Aaron Guzikowski, which is the iteration of the franchise’s return that almost made it to the screen before the plug was pulled back in 2017.
“The screenplay that I read was written by the guy who wrote Prisoners, and it was good. It was sort of a remake of the original, and that’s what I’d want to do,” Perkins told the Boo Crew. “Kinda remake the original, with the mom, and the camp, and all the stuff. And put it in the period. Yeah. Maybe.”
So what’s the latest on the Friday the 13th legal mess? Entertainment lawyer/Part 3 star Larry Zerner informed us this week that oral arguments will be taking place next month.
Zerner tweeted, “Mark Your Calendar! The 2nd Circuit has scheduled oral arguments in Horror Inc. v. Miller (the Friday the 13th case) for February 13 at 10:00 AM. Each side will have 12 minutes to argue. I will provide analysis as soon as the Court posts the recording of the hearing.”
You can listen to the Boo Crew’s full chat with Osgood Perkins below.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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