‘Crystal Lake’ – A24 & Peacock’s ‘Friday the 13th’ TV Series Is Coming Together… for Real This Time!
Sixteen years after the most recent installment in the franchise and in the wake of years worth of legal battles and behind the scenes issues, the Friday the 13th franchise is finally making its way back into our lives with “Crystal Lake,” and series showrunner Brad Caleb Kane (“Welcome to Derry”) has updated us on the production over on Instagram tonight.
Brad Caleb Kane posted a photo of a “Crystal Lake” production draft script on Instagram and announced that the show’s production offices are now opened up for business!
Based on characters created by original Friday the 13th (1980) writer Victor Miller, the script in the photograph was written by Brad Caleb Kane himself, and the copyright is registered to “Camp Blood LLC.” It’s likely this means that pre-production has begun, with production gearing up to kick off soon. Stay tuned for more on all things “Crystal Lake” as we learn it.
Linda Cardellini will be playing Mrs. Voorhees in “Crystal Lake” for A24 and Peacock, described as “a mother who had given up a singing career to raise a special needs child and takes a dark turn when she loses her son.” Her son, of course, is none other than Jason Voorhees.
“Crystal Lake” is being described as an “expanded prequel” to the original Friday the 13th franchise featuring both Jason Voorhees and his mother, Pamela Voorhees. As mentioned, the streaming series will bring the Friday the 13th franchise back to life after 16 years of Jason Voorhees lying dormant at the bottom of the lake due to messy legal issues over the rights.
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