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Friday the 13th joins Halloween in getting rebooted

Dracula

Dracula

Lord of Vampires
The original message board I found this on has since pruned the thread, so I can't find it, but it seems there's going to be reboot of the Friday the 13th franchise. As most of you know, Halloween is getting rebooted/remade by Rob Zombie next year.

Here's the blurb I found on Friday the 13th. I'll continue to search for the official link.

New Line officials confirmed recently that director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) is in talks with the studio to direct and produce a remake of the 1980 horror film "Friday the 13th," which launched an eleven film franchise. Demme seems determined to reboot the ailing franchise, which seemed to have run out of steam before crossing over with the Nightmare on Elm Street series in 2002's Freddy vs. Jason. Demme has mentioned that he wants actress Alice Krige in the crucial role of Pamela Voorhees, and an experienced young woman in the role of Alice, who survives Voorhees's killing spree.

Demme is no stranger to remakes, and remarked on the virtue of such projects when his version of The Manchurian Candidate was released in 2004: "I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie. I think what's sacrilegious is to make a bad movie, whether it's a remake or an original. It's what I always tell my actor friends, anybody who's in this, this [business], you've gotta try to hold out and only do the scripts, do the material that offers you the opportunity to do your best work. Because if you do stuff that doesn't give you that opportunity? Your work's not gonna be good. And you're gonna suffer in the long run from that. So I don't care if it's a remake if it's a great script with parts in it that can attract fantastic actors, God, you know, to make the movie."

New Line expects deals to be signed and pre-production to begin in late 2007 for a summer or fall 2008 release date.
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Interesting stuff. I guess we could do worse than Rob on Halloween and now Demme on Friday the 13th. And if anyone can play batshit crazy matriarch, it's Krige.





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MAN FUCK ALL YOU NERD WHORE BITCHES FO RNOT CARING! THIS IS SOME SHIT! FRDIAY THE FUCKIN G THIRTEENTH AND SHIT! FUCK1 JONATHAN DEMME AND THA T SHIT! AND THAT MILF ALICE KRIGE! FUCK ME OUT OF MY MIND BITCHES!
 
That's the one that's going to have the part where they gut Kefka as he's strolling down the sidewalk. The look on his face as his intestines slowely roll out and hit the concrete is supposed to be cinema at it's best.

Woohoo! Can't wait!
 
If Demme approaches this seriously, instead of the self parodies that were the latter sequals, it might just work.
 
Actually, this is interesting. Loathe as I am to remakes, multiple-sequal franchises have less to lose from the process. The director in question certainly has more than a solid CV, and should make a good fist of it.
 
According to Variety, the Demme stuff was pure rumor.

Now it's going to be MICHAEL FUCKING BAY!!!

On February 14th, 2006, according to The Hollywood Reporter, director and producer Michael Bay is scheduled to produce a remake of the original Friday the 13th film, produced by his production company Platinum Dunes. No script has been written nor actors cast.[1] According to Variety, the film will be directed by Jonathan Liebesman.[2]
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That's from Wikipedia, which I don't trust. I'm giong to re-post my info on the Wiki page, since I think it's more accurate than this shit.
 
Pretty sure this shit you mention here is false, Drac. The truth is the second shit you posted. Depressing, yes. But that's what's going around the Net right now.

Doesn't matter to me. The first Friday the 13th was shit, can't see a remake making it any better.
 
So what should actually be "rebooted"?

Well the Leprechaun series, to start with. As Gagh pointed out, multiple-sequal franchises have little to lose - AND an all CGI midget would solve a lot of problems. Lep 3 through 6 sucked mainly because Warwick failed to take the character to the next level. Six films worth of pure camp is just too much.

He could still be involved though in a motion capture capacity.
 
Sarek said:
That's the one that's going to have the part where they gut Kefka as he's strolling down the sidewalk. The look on his face as his intestines slowely roll out and hit the concrete is supposed to be cinema at it's best.

Woohoo! Can't wait!
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if they show it on a Mexican station,you can bet they wont censor it!I loved seeing Species on Telemundo.Especially that woman in the bathroom stall.they showed the whole thing.
 
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