July
28
Comic-Con: Friday the 13th Inspires Screaming By Any Means Necessary
[Posted by Dave Lewis]
On the last day of Comic-Con, producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form allayed fans’ Friday the 13th fears with promises that their reboot of the horror franchise would keep Jason Voorhees out of hell, deep space and Manhattan.
Fuller and Form are well versed in the land of horror remakes, with credits that include Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hitcher, The Amityville Horror and soon, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. And, as cineastes might feel about Hitchcock, horror fans expect loyalty to the source material. The first-look teaser for Friday the 13th (shown twice) seemed to satisfy with slick thrills, plenty of R-rated gore and what appeared to be a fleeting glimpse of Jason as a boy. Likewise, the poster offers a faithful image of Jason's gruesome goalie mask.
The producers promised a more "realistic" take on the legendary slasher; this time around, the masked man sticks to Crystal Lake. "We tried to keep it rooted in reality,” said Form. “We tried to go totally away from the supernatural.” Form and Fuller said they took some inspiration from parts 2-4 of the original series, although it goes back to basics by exploring Jason's past and revealing how he got the mask.
“They made Jason smart,” said Derek Mears, who plays the iconic Voorhees. “You feel sympathy for him." Leave it to other actors to dream of assaying Hamlet, or at least Superman; Mears said that as a child he used to think, "Someday, I'd like to play Jason."
That said, when the panel suffered from dull spots, Form didn’t hesistate to pull in the film’s hunky and amiable star, Jared Padalecki. Offered Form, "Have you guys seen Jared with his shirt off?" The thought of seeing the star of the CW's Supernatural bare-chested got the fangirls screaming, the sound Form and Fuller hope to hear February 13. See more photos from the "Friday the 13th" Comic-Con panel.
Here's an excerpt from Variety's 1980 review of the original Friday the 13th.
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