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‘Friday the 13th’ Co-Creator Wants a “Young Writer” for “Old School” Jason Movie
Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. may have innumerable repercussions, but there’s at least one silver lining for horror fans: it could help bring Friday the 13th back.
With franchise co-creators Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller having resolved their legal issues after years of court battles, Cunningham tells TMZ he hopes a new Friday the 13th movie will gain traction in the wake of the studio merger, as the rights being divided between them has been a major hurdle.
After Paramount released the first eight Friday the 13th movies throughout the 1980s, New Line scooped up the rights to Jason and produced the next three installments before being acquired by Warner Bros.
New Line and Paramount teamed up for the 2009 reboot, with Warner Bros. handling the domestic release and Paramount overseeing international distribution.
Cunningham confirms that a film treatment for an “old school” Jason movie is done.
He says the script needs a “young writer,” because the heart of the series has always been “the fear of untimely death” — and he’s too old to be worried about that these days.
Cunningham mentions he’s just a “cheerleader” for the project, but he anticipates being an executive producer if it comes to fruition.
While we continue to wait for Jason’s feature return, Peacock is bringing Friday the 13th to the small screen with the prequel series “Crystal Lake” later this year.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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