‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel Series ‘Crystal Lake’ in the Works at Peacock From Bryan Fuller - Hollywood Reporter

Happy campers? More similar dying campers.

Just successful clip for Halloween, Peacock has announced that it has gone consecutive to bid connected Crystal Lake, a prequel play based connected the deed fearfulness movie franchise Friday the 13th.

Bryan Fuller, the prolific tv creator down specified shows arsenic American Gods and Star Trek: Discovery, volition write, showrun and enforcement nutrient the series, which volition beryllium produced by A24, the workplace known for buzzy movies specified as Everything Everywhere All astatine Once and this year’s fearfulness one-two punch, X and Pearl.

Friday the 13th is the fearfulness franchise that launched successful 1980 and gave the satellite Jason Voorhees, the hockey-masked slasher who mostly kills successful and astir the verdant and idyllic grounds of Camp Crystal Lake (except for the uncommon jaunt to New York oregon outer space).

The movies birthed a TV bid erstwhile before, arsenic good arsenic novels, video games and a big of merchandise arsenic the franchise became portion of popular culture.

The IP besides got tangled successful analyzable rights deals arsenic it moved from Paramount to New Line and became caught successful a years-long copyright quality betwixt the archetypal movie’s director-producer Sean S. Cunningham and archetypal screenwriter Victor Miller.

In May, Miller emerged victorious, giving him power implicit the publication and archetypal characters but not implicit the Friday the 13th rubric nor the conception of an big Jason oregon adjacent the hockey mask, which was lone introduced successful the 3rd movie.

Miller; Marc Toberoff, the copyright lawyer who repped Miller successful the case; and Rob Barsamian service arsenic enforcement producers connected the Peacock show, which is being described arsenic a play and whitethorn beryllium likened to Bates Motel, the A&E bid that ran from 2013 to 2017 and served arsenic a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 fearfulness classic, Psycho.

Barsamian is the existent holder of the rights not successful Miller’s briefcase, including the rubric and the mask. That points to the 2 parties present moving unneurotic connected this task and that those elements could perchance amusement up astatine 1 point.

“I discovered Friday the 13th in the pages of Famous Monsters magazine erstwhile I was 10 years aged and I person been reasoning astir this communicative ever since,” Fuller said successful a statement. “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 under their banner. And [NBCUniversal’s] Susan Rovner is simply the champion astatine what she does. It’s a pleasance and an grant to beryllium moving with her again.”  

For his part, Fuller has had a colorful way record. He is possibly champion known for specified critically praised yet ratings-challenged favorites as Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies (on which helium worked with Rovner during her tenure astatine Warner Bros. TV), Dead Like Me and Hannibal. He developed Star Trek: Discovery, American Gods and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and was either fto spell from oregon departed each 3 for a assortment of factors. Most recently, helium exec produced the docuseries Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror. In keeping with the Halloween spirit, Fuller antecedently developed The Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane for NBC, which yet aired arsenic a peculiar connected the network.

“Friday the 13th is 1 of the astir iconic fearfulness franchises successful movie past and we were dying to revisit this communicative with our upcoming play bid Crystal Lake,” said Rovner, president of amusement contented astatine NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “We can’t hold to get to enactment with Bryan Fuller, a gifted, visionary creator who I’ve had the pleasance of being a longtime person and collaborator, on with our unthinkable partners astatine A24, successful this updated mentation for Peacock that volition thrill long-standing fans of the franchise.”

Fuller is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Lesley Goldberg contributed to this story.

Updated Oct. 31, 4:23 PM clarifying Barsamian’s engagement and rights status.