‘Friday The 13th Part 2’ Is On The Way
Hot on the heels of the release of the first movie trailer for the new version of A Nightmare on Elm Street (which we got to see here on the blog last Monday) comes news that a sequel to the remake version of Friday the 13th has been greenlit and will be coming to theaters next Summer. As you may recall, the new version of Friday the 13th hit theaters this past February … and now we learn that Jason Voorhees is comin’ back for more in part deux:
New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. have announced that they are moving forward with the sequel to 2009’s “Friday the 13th” by setting up a release date. On Thursday, October 1, the studios revealed that they are aiming to bring “Friday the 13th Part 2″ into theaters across America in summer of 2010. The exact schedule for the release of this thirteenth installment in the series will be on August 13, 2010. On that particular date, “Part 2″ will be up against Screen Gems’ horror “Priest”, which deals with a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires and get his kidnapped niece back. The date has been teased by producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form earlier. “If it does get greenlit, and we are able to mount it in a reasonable amount of time, we will have the film opening on August 13th of 2010,” they told MovieWeb at the time. As for what this sequel will offer, the producers shared, “Jason is going to have a snowball fight. Look, for Friday the 13th II, which is a totally different film than A Nightmare on Elm Street, it needs to look different. It has a totally different feeling. We want to have fun.” They added, “We want to present something that audiences haven’t seen before. One of the things they haven’t seen before is Jason in the snow. They haven’t seen that before. Our goal is to bring them things they haven’t seen.”
Actually there was buzz going around that a sequel to the remake 13th was in the works just days after Friday the 13th opened last February. The film took in enough $$$ at the box office to make a sequel feasible. I’m not surprised … we are plainly aware that Hollywood has run out of ideas to the point that they have to remake everything, it makes sense that they would want to squeeze as many sequels out of these remakes as possible. I liked Friday the 13th but I wasn’t wowed … I suspect the same will be said about this sequel. Are any of y’all happy that Jason Voorhees will be back in Friday the 13th Part 2?
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October 2nd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
hmmm. (Stupid question) But what brought on these stories of Jason and Freddie? I’ve never heard where they had started from or why. But its kind of strange how they have become the two ‘killers’ that everyone has some fear of in any age group.
Hopefully it will be good :)
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Will JPad be in it???
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I don’t think anything will be surprising in this. I’m sorry, I can’t stand remakes, especially sequels of remakes, ugh. =(
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I thought Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween was brilliant..but his remake of Halloween 2 was horrible..The remake of Friday the 13th wasn’t that bad…but it seems that with reamake’s the second installment is always a big letdown :-(
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I actually liked the ‘Friday The 13th’ remake. I thought it worked and it was done quite well unlike ‘Halloween’ or any other remake(s) out there.