Friday the 13th Pt 2 "is dead"
Thu, April 22, 2010
Shocktillyoudrop is running this story via what they heard from producer Brad Fullers twitter account. I'm not sure anyone should be surprised to hear this news, especially at this point, Brad's been telling fans on his twitter account for a while now that nothing was happening with the Friday the 13th Sequel.
When a fan asked Brad how things were going with the friday the 13th sequel he replied: "It is dead- not happening."
The remake released in 2009 made nearly 100 million at the box office on a budget of only 19 million. The problem for the studio may have been that after the 40 million opening weekend, it took an 80% drop the following weekend. This would be un-heard of for most movies, however for genre slasher flicks, they always tend to make the majority of their money in the opening weekend and then slowly limp on from there.
You would think given the popularity for the character though, not to mention the profitability, WB/NL would green light the sequel. Shocktillyoudrop believes there's more going on behind the scenes then what we're currently being told. Could it be that they're not convinced in Platinum Dunes abilities, and they believe Friday the 13th could have been bigger then what it was? The only other movie in the history of that franchise to make more money was, Freddy Vs. Jason.
It's possible NewLine would like to see what happens with the re-launching of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise before they proceed with any more Friday flicks at the moment. After all Friday was a money maker for Paramount, not New Line, they only bought the rights to the character long after Paramount had already sucked everything bone dry to the point of 'Jason does Manhatten'. Freddy on the other hand is the one that built New Line from the ground up, long before they were ever bought out by WB, The nightmare franchise was their most successful, its fair to say that if it weren't for the success of those films, New Line wouldn't be what it is today.
Bloodydisgusting went directly to the source and asked Fuller what the 'Friday' plans were, he confirmed the reports stating "Right now there is no movement on Friday 13th: Part 2."
I won't be shocked at all, if after the release of the "new nightmare' we get a green light for both the 'Friday' sequel as well as NOES. That is depending on the success of that remake ofcourse, if for some reason 'nightmare' fails to deliver at the box office, I wouldn't expect a green light from either for quite some time. At that point its likely we wouldn't see either again until the subsequent remakes of both franchises once again. We can only hope that doesn't happen.
Reader Comments (4)
i hope they do move forward with it, i liked the remake
I really liked the remake I want a sequel. If it does take the NOES remake to make money for a Friday the 13th sequel to happen then I hope NOES remake makes alot of money.
Are you not a fan of NOES as well? I like both, but I prefer Freddy to Jason.
I'm a bigger fan of Friday the 13th but I do like some of the Elm Street movies. I just prefer Jason that's all.