Rumors Of Found Footage Friday The 13th Actually New Halloween?


Some interesting news broke last week when Director Adam Green was interviewed at Bleeding Cool in regards to Hatchet 3. During the interview, Adam mentioned that he was contacted about directing a new movie for a well known slasher franchise and declined. Why you wonder, well, below is his reasoning.

The following was part of his interview at Bleeding Cool:

Now they’re taking, and I can’t say the name of it, but a very well-known slasher franchise, and when I got the call I was like, “I would love to do this!”
Then they were like, “OK, it’s going to be a found footage movie.”
I was like, “Why?”
And they were like, “Because Paranormal Activity made a lot of money.”
So this little snippet of an interview was taken and construed as Adam Green being offered a new Friday The 13th movie that was going to be a found footage film. This seemed unrealistic and inconsistent from a lot of information we have been told about the proposed sequel for Friday The 13th. A week has passed and people have their strong beliefs one way or another to the validity of the rumor. One thing this writer has learned over the years is never believe in or get swept up in the hype until something solid rears its head. Well, that might have happened last night.
Writer Todd Farmer (Jason X, My Bloody Valentine)  has been linked to the Halloween sequel follow-up to Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 for a few years now. Recently, Todd was charged with writing the Hellraiser remake and the thought was that he would then begin prepping Halloween 3 after his work on Hellraiser was complete. That doesn't look to be the case anymore and it sounds like that call that Adam Green received for that well known slasher franchise could very well be Halloween! Below is a message from Todd Farmer's Twitter account which shed some interesting light on the recent rumors.

Dunno what to do or think any more. I'm fired because I won't do a PG13 horror or a found footage Myers. Hollywood blows.

Todd was then asked if there would be a right way to make a PG-13 horror film or found footage Myers. This was his answer:

PG13 and FF have their places. My opinion would be that neither belong in remaking rated R originals.

Hmm. Found footage Myers, well known slasher franchise and two upset creative minds in Hollywood, one a writer and one a director. Sounds like we might have found the actual horror film that was going the found footage route. Of course, this is speculation on our part as well, but at least this makes a lot more sense with the Weinsteins always angling for a new popular angle for their films. Halloween: Resurrection anyone? What are your thoughts on these new developments. Should Friday the 13th fans breathe a sigh of relief and should Halloween fans be scared now?




13 comments:

  1. WHY CAN'T WE WATCH THE FOOTIGE!!!

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  2. Told you it was either F13 or Halloween.. I have to admit I was leaning MORE on F13 (only because of no real part 2 rumors, while Halloween had H3D)

    BUT, I also know being a huge Zombie Halloween fan that he got a lot of shit being artistic and creative and the Weinstens are mony people and want to cash in. First with H3D... but wait, found footage is cheaper.. lets do that! Makes total sense to me. Even Zombie was chosen cause he was the new 'fresh' director when Devils Rejects made a lot of noise (and he also talked to the F13 people way back then)

    Anyway, the Halloween does make more sense knowing the Weinstiens, but the F13 seemed a bit more believeable in the moment because of no Part 2, and Green making more 'F13esq' horror with Kane Hodder

    A also told you the new Halloween would suck no matter what..lol. I had no faith in H3D, and I have less faith in Myers found footage. There is no where to go but down after Zombie.

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  3. that pic of from the Movie
    Quarantine so its not footage from a new Friday the 13th film here go to this link and see this poster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_%282008_film%29

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  4. No body said it was footage from F13... they just posted it as an example of 'found footage'

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  5. I'm glad it sounds like the Friday the 13th thing is not the real deal. I feel bad for the Halloween fans because Zombie actually made that franchise scary again (although his director's cut of H2 was pretty bad). Let hope we get some positive Friday the 13th news in the future!

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  6. Very happy to find out that the possibility of this being a Halloween film is more likely. Wish we could get more solid news on what is going on with a sequel! :(

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  7. Yea, this was just a reference photo used for the story. Don't think anywhere in this post it was mentioned that it was a photo from a new movie. ;)

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  8. Found footage Halloween movies? What the hell are the Wensteins doing?? Get these guys away from the franchise now. Argggg! Glad that they cannot ruin the Friday the 13th series as much as the Halloween films are destroyed.

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  9. This is great news for us Friday the 13th fans as I am totally against this concept for MR. Voorhees. I sometimes think studio heads have not a single clue about the properties they own. Geesh! Lets hope someone intelligent gets a hold of this franchise and makes a good movie to follow up the 2009 one.

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  10. This is all very bizarre. I don't know about the Friday the 13th movie, but I thought Todd and Patrick were working on Halloween already and just waiting to get moving once Hellraiser was wrapped up. Now he's saying he was fired because the Weinsteins want a found footage film? So now this is the second time they have screwed over Tood and Patrick on Halloween.

    If I was those two I would say screw this, I'm out of here. And if this is all true, then Halloween is getting remade again? In the immortal words of Axel from The Final Chapter... "Holy jesus jumping Christmas shit. Holy jesus god damn!"

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  11. Who the fuck cares?  Both are small, niche, shitty franchises being kept alive by a few middle aged writers, directors and execs who can't get hired in the real movie market.  Move the fuck on and talk about something worthwhile.    

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  12. I've never seen Quarantine, but the original (REC) was fantastic, and I'm not afraid to admit Blair Witch kept me up the night I saw it. A "found" Friday film could be great. More than likely, it would be put in the hands of the industry's newest Rob Hedden. As far as Halloween, wasn't one of them already a found footage movie? It was also terrible.

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  13. Both movies are actually cult classics in America and big hits in the box office. Friday the 13th, last time I checked, never went below 30 million in the box office. Or something around that number. I look forward to seeing each time Jason gets on the screen and rips a head off or stalks someone in the woods.

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