Sean S. Cunningham, who directed the unique Friday the 13th, has revealed a possible launch window for Crystal Lake.
Crystal Lake is the forthcoming Friday the thirteenth prequel sequence that’s being made for Peacock by A24. Bryan Fuller was initially tapped because the sequence’ showrunner earlier than he then left the challenge in Could 2024. In August 2024, it was revealed that Welcome to Derry’s Brad Caleb Kane had been employed to exchange Fuller.
Per Bloody Disgusting, Cunningham mentioned that, whereas there was no official affirmation as of but, he believes the sequence is eyeing a Halloween 2025 launch window right now.
What did Friday the thirteenth’s Sean S. Cunningham say about Crystal Lake?
“Final I heard, they’re speaking about capturing it in Australia on the finish of this yr and releasing on Halloween 2025,” Cunningham mentioned. “However I’ve heard variations of that story for thus lengthy, I don’t put quite a lot of credibility into it. There’s simply so many issues that may go sideways.”
Cunningham mentioned of the sequence, “A while in the past, the rights expired on the unique script, so then there grew to become doubt about who owns what after 35 years. That was being labored out by legal professionals, and we have been attempting to determine what we have been going to do. We have been attempting to do a TV sequence, which we truly acquired fairly far down the highway on. I used to be very proud of that. I believed it was going to be quite a lot of enjoyable, after which the rights factor blew up and the TV sequence acquired postponed, after which the pandemic arrived.
“Lastly, A24 determined that they’d hook up with Peacock and do a Friday the thirteenth TV sequence. They have been gonna rent Bryan Fuller, an excellent author. On the earth of tv, the showrunner, the principle author, is the star. That’s the individual you need to have full religion in, as a result of it’s not the power to put in writing one story; it’s the power to inform a brand new story each week. That’s very, very onerous, and only a few folks can do it.
“Bryan acquired the job, and it was greenlit. It was going ahead, they began to arrange the writers’ room, they usually didn’t just like the highway he was taking place. They felt it was gonna be too darkish. In order that they deserted it after which employed one other author [Brad Caleb Kane].”
