ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jason Won't Stay Dead; "Friday the 13th" Remake Still Alive

Jason Won't Stay Dead; "Friday the 13th" Remake Still Alive

by Scott Weinberg | January 09, 2007

Platinum Dunes producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller have been hitting every movie site on the net in an effort to get the word out on "The Hitcher." But all everyone seems to be asking about is that "Friday the 13th" remake. Is it still going forward?

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, but not anytime real soon. Now that a rights issue between Paramount and New Line has been cleared up, the producers aim to get cracking on that screenplay. "Sometime late next year" is what we're being promised, and it seems like director Jonathan Liebesman may still be the #1 candidate for the job.

Nobody's precisely sure on how much of it will be a remake and how much of it will be like any old sequel out there, but the producers seem insistent on avoiding the Mrs. Voorhees material, which is kind of a problem if you're making a remake of the original "Friday the 13th," but hey, the thing could turn out great. It's not like "Friday the 13th" is "Gone with the Wind."

Check out all the "F13" remake coverage at JoBlo's, Fangoria, and Bloody-Disgusting.com.

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MarkMortimer writes:
on Jan 09 2007 05:27 AM

Yay, another remake of a very tired franchise.

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Azlam Orlandu writes:
on Jan 09 2007 05:46 AM

For fuck's sake.

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danrice56 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 06:43 AM

In reply to this comment (#852563)
When they've completely exhausted every last possibility of originality in a franchise, they start with the remakes. Who the hell cares about Friday/13th?

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Mikeal420 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 07:27 AM

[b]JONATHON LIEBESMAN!![/b]
Could they have gotten a bigger hack to direct this!! I wish Tarantino was serious a year ago about directing the remake

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dylan21484nj writes:
on Jan 09 2007 09:11 AM

first Rob Zombie's Halloween "reimagining," now this. is there really no good NEW ideas left?

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aknddon3 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 12:40 PM

In reply to this comment (#852565)
Yeah who cares about one of the best horror franchises? You are a fool.

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t00ncinator writes:
on Jan 09 2007 01:17 PM

No, the Hitcher should never have been re-made and neither should any of the F13 films. Hollywood is in a sad state right now, too many High Paid Gen-X wannabe's with no talent or brains to come up with any new ideas. Pretty soon they'll be re-making movies a year after the first one came out because it sucked the first time and will suck even more the second time around. Why don't they just re-release the Originals to be enjoyed on the big screen in Dolby sound?

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jan 09 2007 01:24 PM

In reply to this comment (#852568)
Could you do one comment without insulting someone? Talk about tired. In my opinion Jason has been done to death. They just need to let him rest in peace or at least come up with something new and fresh instead of Jason comes out of the lake and kills teenage girls. How many times can we really see that before it gets tired and stupid. ah 1, ah ta-hoo, ah three....three.

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dagreenman18 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 01:50 PM

if the halloween remake turns out awesome, then have Rob Direct this.

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t00ncinator writes:
on Jan 09 2007 02:05 PM

In reply to this comment (#852571)
Rob is a gore freak, it's that F-13 the Original was about scares, first film to use first person killer camera angles. They couldn't improve on the Original, Just like The Amityville Horror, all of these will show alot more gore with alot less talent.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 04:37 PM

In reply to this comment (#852572)
Get Wes Craven to make the remake of F-13th and basically just update it, same story, same scenes, same first person view, and same if not more blood.

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Brad 3000 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 08:06 PM

In reply to this comment (#852569)
Firstly, don't blame the people making movies in hollywood for this remake centric fiasco that's happening. Blame the audience goers, who time and time again, go to the theaters in droves for all these lame sequels and remakes yet won't drop a red cent on awesome original horror films like the Descent or Slither. Films need to make money or the whole shebang falls apart - the movie business is a business after all. Unlike some other countries, the US has no subsidies for film development, so movies made here have to bring in the cash, otherwise they won't get made here any more. It sickens me as much as anyone to see the theaters filled with rehashed crap, but if there is anyone to blame it's the movie going public. If people didn't line up for this crap it wouldn't get made. It's as simple as that. None of the creative people in Hollywood are truely hyped up and excited to regurgitate old movies - trust me, every single one of them would rather make something daring and original - but they do want to work and unfortunatley people are not buying daring and original anymore. So directors and writers suit up and do remakes and sequels, because it is either that or don't work at all. I know that there are a lot of hacks in hollywood too, I'm not discounting that. These remakes in this current crop could be better than they are - being a remake doesn't have to mean a movie is going to be crap. Hell a couple of my favorite movies are remakes (John Carpenter's The Thing and Phillip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers) - I'm just saying, don't blame the lack of creativity on the people who are out there trying to make movies. Not entirely anyway. I just think it's time to start railing on the real perpetraitors behind these travesties - the idiots who line up to go see them.

I was also wondering where you got the impression that Friday the Thirteenth was the first movie to use a "first person" camera (routinely called a POV or point-of-view shot, when talking about film rather than video games). The POV shot became a part of cinematic language LONG before Friday the 13th. I couldn't even name the first time it was used but couple of famous examples pre F13 would be Jaws and Psycho.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 09:53 PM

In reply to this comment (#852574)
First off Descent was bad, really bad. Second people can go see whatever movies they want, the problem is critics. Critics think their opinions should matter so people are affraid to make movies that might get panned by the critics. Others do not care and make movies for their click, like the horror remakes and such.

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hellhole writes:
on Jan 09 2007 10:41 PM

In reply to this comment (#852563)
Look at it this way: the Friday the 13th series has never been good. So if this film is garbage, then nothing is lost and nothing is gained. The universe is no better or worse for it having being made. It's just another F13 movie for the hardcore horror junkies to add to their collection of DVDs.

On the flip side, this is a chance for the series to wash its hands of all the poor decisions, terrible writing, and B-grade production values that have marred it from the beginning. If there's any chance for a genuinely decent film to come out of Friday the 13th, this is it. And step one is finding a different twist for the end, rather than making Jason's crazy-ass mom the real killer.

Regarding Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween... no. Just no. Halloween is actually a good movie, and it's fine the way it is. Zombie ought to stick to performing music; it's what he's good at.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Jan 09 2007 11:02 PM

In reply to this comment (#852576)
Actually it was good, it started off great. The first one is probably the second or third greatest horror movie ever.

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MarkMortimer writes:
on Jan 10 2007 01:56 AM

In reply to this comment (#852577)
In your opinion.

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danrice56 writes:
on Jan 10 2007 04:08 AM

In reply to this comment (#852568)
One of the best horror franchises? What have you been smoking?

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new12play writes:
on Jan 10 2007 06:26 AM

Jason is one of the greatest iconic horror characters of all time. You can't deny that. Whenever someone mentions horror monsters, Jason has to be in the top 5. I don't mind remakes of horror franchises like this because if there's no new ideas to come up with a genuine monster of our day, why not bring back monsters of old with a new twist. It's the remakes of movies and tv shows like Bewitched, Dukes of Hazzard, The Pink Panther, Yours, Mine, and Ours, The Omen, and others that get under my skin. I wish they would finally greenlight the Nightmare on Elm Street prequel before Robert Englund calls it quits.

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t00ncinator writes:
on Jan 10 2007 09:48 AM

I think another F13 is a good idea, but not a remake of the original, I personally would like to see more of the "Jason" behind Part II. I mean in that film we got a tour of his house, his belongings(Including his mother's head) and his small stash of sentimental weapons. OK there was no Hockey Mask but hey, the burlap sack, hippy hair-do and overall's worked. They could always make a new film using a younger Jason and tie it into the series without butchering any of the originals.

And also to answer your question, Psycho and jaws did have POV but NOT FPV where you actually see the moving body parts(Feet, Legs hands opening doors/picking up objects ect...) F-13 was the first to ever show a Killers real POV.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Jan 10 2007 10:26 AM

In reply to this comment (#852578)
No that is not my opinion that is fact.

Top 5 horror movies:

1. Psycho
2. Halloween
3. Friday the 13th
4. Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I do not consider Jaws a horror movie. If i would then Friday would move down to four and Jaws would be 2.

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