{"id":522196,"date":"2026-03-14T00:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522196\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:49:11","slug":"friday-the-13th-og-creator-says-new-flick-is-in-development-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522196\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Friday the 13th’ OG Creator Says New Flick Is in Development Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s Friday the 13th … so what better day to find out a new film in the popular slasher franchise may be on the way?!<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal … there hasn’t been a ‘Jason’ film in several years … and we’re told it’s all been a matter of rights issues — both between the two creators and two major studios. But it seems those issues will likely be resolved … and a new film project is being crafted.<\/p>\n

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Franchise co-creator Sean Cunningham tells TMZ … a film treatment for an “old school” Jason flick is done … and he’s hopeful that, with the mega-merger of<\/a> Warner Bros. and Paramount, the project will gain serious traction because he says both studios have rights –and that’s been a major hurdle.<\/p>\n

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The horror icon Cunningham tells us that he and franchise co-creator Victor Miller resolved their issues … and he hopes the upcoming studio merger will take care of the other entanglement.<\/p>\n

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As for the new project … Cunningham says the script needs a “young writer” because the heart of the series has always been “the fear of untimely death” — and SC says he’s too old to be worried about that these days. He also mentioned he’s just a “cheerleader” for the project … but anticipates being an executive producer — if it happens.<\/p>\n


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Sadly, there’s no way to know exactly when Jason fans will get a new flick … but the prequel TV series “Crystal Lake” is expected to premiere on Peacock this year … ch ch ch, ah ah ah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s Friday the 13th … so what better day to find out a new film in the popular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-522196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}