Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Friday the 13th 2
10/2/09 - Warner Brothers announced an August 13, 2010, release date for Friday the 13th Part 2, a sequel to the Platinum Dunes-produced remake that arrived in theaters this past February, Bloody-Disgusting.com reported.
6/16/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that Andrew Form, producer of Friday the 13th, said that a sequel to the 2009 franchise reboot may be his next film project, that it is eyeing a summer 2010 release and that it may place machete-wielding mass murderer Jason Voorhees in a new, heretofore not seen environment: snow. "We're hopeful that's the next movie," Form said. "There's a nice date coming up next summer that we hope everyone can see another Friday the 13th on." (Aug. 13, 2010, a Friday.) Brad Fuller, Form's producing partner, said that the duo were already developing the project with a screenwriter. "Yes, with Shannon Swift," he said. "For 2009 I think that it's Nightmare on Elm Street and the sequel to Friday the 13th, and then beyond that, I don't know. A lot of you guys have been talking to us for years, and you know we don't develop that far beyond what we're doing."
2/2/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that a second Friday the 13th sequel is already in the air. Several of the film's actors said they have a contract option for a second film with the production company, Platinum Dunes, and would love to reprise their characters. "There's rumors for a sequel," Derek Mears said—the towering stuntman and actor who plays Jason Voorhees. "Any film you do, it could be, it doesn't matter, they're going, 'Well, we're thinking about a sequel.' Everyone does. But I do have a second-picture option with Platinum Dunes. It could be for part two; it could be for another film." Producer Brad Fuller dismissed talk about a sequel, at least for now. "No, we really haven't discussed it," he said. "I mean, I don't know. I just feel like talking about a sequel jinxes it. Honestly. But if it does well that Friday night, we'll have talks on Saturday morning at 6 a.m. We'll start figuring it out. But until then, we don't want to talk about it. We don't talk about what could be, because you never know."
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