It has been nearly fifteen years since we’ve had a new Friday the 13th movie grace the silver screen. That’s about fourteen years too long to forgo Jason Voorhees dispatching folks with a machete, in my humble opinion. While we wait for that to change, screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, who penned the 2009 remake, which, amazingly enough, remains the most recent entry in the franchise, have shared a fresh glimpse at the sequel they never got to make.
Given that it is, indeed, a Friday the 13th, the screenwriting duo put up a poll on Twitter asking fans what they would like to see: An AMA about 2009’s Friday the 13th and Freddy vs. Jason, or for them to share a kill from the sequel script they wrote. The kill won by a landslide. Good to their word, Shannon and Swift revealed a couple of pages from the unmade film, which sees an unfortunate girl on a zipline getting taken the f*** out by Jason. Check it out.
You asked for it, you got it.
— Shannon🎃Swift (@shannonandswift) October 13, 2023
Here is a kill from our unmade sequel to Friday the 13th 2009. The script had an extended opening sequence again, this time in winter, then the rest of the movie is the reopening of the summer camp. I still want to see @DerekMears do this one lol https://t.co/iMYPsKsJTk pic.twitter.com/N7M56kHCZb
So yeah, that’s pretty brutal and badass. “Jason cuts her down and her torso falls with a wet thud.” That’s cinema, baby. Unfortunately, the odds of this movie ever seeing the light of day are slim to none. Warner Bros. and Paramount worked together on the 2009 film, which grossed $92 million worldwide and was very much a hit. Shannon and Swift were commissioned to write a screenplay for a sequel that was, at one point, set to arrive in August of 2010. For various reasons, that never happened. WB and Paramount squabbled over money and, more recently, the lawsuit between Sean Cunningham and Victor Miller had the rights to the franchise tied up for years. It’s been a mess. Hence, Jason has been sidelined for well over a decade.
In the past, Shannon and Swift have shared other details about the script they finished that was never produced. Back in 2017, they shared several script pages, including a cover page, that revealed the title as Friday the 13th: Camp Blood. More intriguingly, there was a second title included that read The Death of Jason Voorhees. The pages also revealed that the movie would have been set, at least in part, in the snow. That’s right! Wintertime at Camp Crystal Lake!
Bc #WomenBoycottTwitter on #FridayThe13th here's tmrw's present early. A few pgs that answer a cliffhanger question! RT while they last! pic.twitter.com/mqyZa2TnCb
— Shannon🎃Swift (@shannonandswift) October 13, 2017
While this movie may never see the light of day, there is some good news. A series set within the franchise titled Crystal Lake is currently in the works for Peacock, and it is expected to last multiple seasons. Optimism in place, that could perhaps pave the way for a new movie as well down the line. Either way, Jason figures to finally make his long-awaited return sooner rather than later.
