A few days ago, Paramount Pictures announced that it was delaying the premiere of "Rings" until February 3, 2017, and now it has also announced that it is forced to delay one of his great horror projects for next year: "Friday the 13th."
Supposedly, the new "Friday the 13th" was going to premiere on January 13, but they have postponed it for no less than 9 months, Until 13 October. Two highly anticipated films will also be released that same day: "Logan Lucky", the new one by Steven Soderbergh, and "The Commuter", by Jaume Collet-Serra.
"Friday the 13th" ... bad luck
Delaying the release of a movie by 9 months is certainly not a good sign, but hopefully it is to be able to work better on it and that the results are really worth it. In the direction will be Breck Eisner, whose father worked on the original franchise in the 80s. The script is written by Aaron Guizokowski, writer of "Contraband," among others.
The «Friday the 13th» franchise
If there is a horror saga that has triumphed around the world, there is no doubt that it is "Friday the 13th." Nothing less than 10 original movies and a reboot, released in 2009. In addition, in 2003 "Freddy vs. Jason", a crossover, was released and TheCW had planned to record the series "Friday the 13th", but it was finally canceled after producing the pilot episode. As for the films, the last one was released in 2009.
The franchise focuses on Jason Voorhes, a fictional character who, as a child, drowns in the Crystal Lake Camp because of the negligence of his monitors. Decades later the lake is rumored to be cursed and murders begin to ensue. Jason is present in all the films of the saga, in some cases as the murderer himself and in others as his motivation to carry out the crimes.