'Friday the 13th' Prequel Series 'Crystal Lake' in the Works at Peacock From Bryan Fuller



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Happy campers? More similar dying campers.

Just successful clip for Halloween, Peacock has introduced that it has agelong past consecutive to bid connected Crystal Lake, a prequel play based wholly astatine the deed fearfulness movie franchise Friday the thirteenth.

Bryan Fuller, the prolific tv writer successful the backmost of specified shows arsenic American Gods and Star Trek: Discovery, volition write, showrun and authorities nutrient the series, with a presumption to beryllium produced by means of A24, the workplace recognized for buzzy movies on with Everything Everywhere All astatine Once and this yr’s fearfulness one- punch, X and Pearl.

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Friday the thirteenth is the fearfulness franchise that released successful 1980 and gave the arena Jason Voorhees, the hockey-masked slasher who successful astir cases kills successful and crossed the verdant and idyllic grounds of Camp Crystal Lake (besides for the uncommon jaunt to New York oregon outer area).

The movies birthed a TV postulation arsenic soon arsenic earlier than, successful summation to novels, video games and a fig of merchandise arsenic the franchise became a portion of fashionable culture.

The IP besides got tangled successful analyzable rights offers due to the fact that it moved from Paramount to New Line and person go caught successful a years-long copyright quality betwixt the archetypal movie’s director-manufacturer Sean S. Cunningham and archetypal screenwriter Victor Miller.

In May, Miller emerged victorious, giving him manipulate implicit the publication and authentic characters nevertheless nary longer implicit the Friday the 13th place nor the thought of an grownup Jason oregon possibly the hockey mask, which was astir effectual brought wrong the 0.33 movie.

Miller; Marc Toberoff, the copyright lawyer who repped Miller successful the case; and Rob Barsamian relation govt producers astatine the Peacock show, that is being defined arsenic a play and tin beryllium likened to Bates Motel, the A&E postulation that ran from 2013 to 2017 and served arsenic a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 fearfulness traditional, Psycho.

Barsamian is the cutting-edge holder of the rights not successful Miller’s briefcase, which see the sanction and the masks. That points to the 2 events present moving unneurotic connected this situation and that those elements should doubtlessly amusement up astatine 1 factor.

“I located Friday the thirteenth in the pages of Famous Monsters magazine aft I go 10 years antique and I person been reasoning astir this communicative ever considering,” Fuller stated successful a declaration. “When it comes to horror, A24 raises the barroom and pushes the envelope and I’m thrilled to beryllium exploring the campgrounds of Crystal Lake below their banner. And [NBCUniversal’s] Susan Rovner is truly the bully astatine what she does. It’s a restitution and an grant to beryllium moving with her again.”  

For his part, Fuller has had a colourful opus file. He is possibly good regarded for specified earnestly praised but rankings-challenged favorites as Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies (on which helium labored with Rovner astatine immoderate constituent of her tenure astatine Warner Bros. TV), Dead Like Me and Hannibal. He advanced Star Trek: Discovery, American Gods and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and turned into either let transverse from oregon departed each 3 for a scope of things. Most these days, helium exec produced the docuseries Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror. In maintaining with the Halloween spirit, Fuller antecedently advanced The Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane for NBC, which successful the extremity aired arsenic a unsocial astatine the network.

“Friday the 13th is 1 of the maximum iconic fearfulness franchises successful movie past and we were nonaccomplishment of beingness to revisit this communicative with our upcoming play bid Crystal Lake,” said Rovner, president of amusement contented worldly astatine NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “We can’t hold to get to paintings with Bryan Fuller, a gifted, visionary writer who I’ve had the restitution of being a longtime buddy and collaborator, on with our ace partners astatine A24, connected this up to day mentation for Peacock successful bid to thrill long-standing fanatics of the franchise.”

Fuller is repped by mode of WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Lesley Goldberg contributed to this tale.

Updated Oct. 31, four:23 PM clarifying Barsamian’s engagement and rights repute.

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