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New ‘Friday the 13th’ to Feature Jason’s Father?!
Five years ago, Brad played an April Fools’ joke on all of us with his story about an unearthed, never-before-seen sequel to Friday the 13th, one which revealed Jason’s father Elias as the new killer. A brilliant idea, it was merely a prank that wasn’t necessarily supposed to go anywhere.
However, it seems that the next entry in the franchise is at least interested in the idea of introducing us to Elias as BMD has found out that Aaron Guzikowski’s script includes a meeting with the patriarch. Elias, who has never been seen in the series, has been alluded to many times in the films and has been seen in comic book form, such as in “Jason vs. Leatherface” and “Friday the 13th: Pamela’s Tale“.
This news comes after Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller explained that the new film will be a new type of origin story that includes Jason’s mother, Pamela Voorhees.
“You kind of have to understand Jason Voorhees, so we go back and we kind of started over and work our way forward,” Fuller states. He elaborates on the “origin” concept, saying, “Origin-ish, but it’s an origin that no one has seen before. Obviously Pamela’s there, but it’s a little bit different from what you’ve seen before.”
You can pick up the Friday the 13th boxset via Amazon.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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