After a fierce legal battle over the ownership of the Friday the 13th IP, the franchise has finally ushered in a new development. It’s been 16 years since the 2009 reboot of Black Friday, and now Jason Voheis (Jason).
Voorhees) is finally returning to the big screen – and our consoles.
At the San Diego Comic-Con in the United States, a “Jason Universe” panel was set up, at which it was officially announced that a new movie would be released after 16 years and a sequel to the 2017 “Friday the 13th Game Edition” would be developed.
There aren’t many details about the sequel yet, but the vice president of Horror Inc. said that the game is one of the company’s priorities at the moment, so we can expect to hear more about it soon.
“I can tell you that a new sequel movie and a new sequel game are our top priorities at the moment. This is exactly where we put most of our energy. I can tell you clearly that we are finally able to deliver on this promise. Although we will not officially announce it with our partners today, both are in production and are coming. ”
The first Black Friday the 13th movie was directed by Sean S.
Directed by Cunningham, it was released in 1980 and was a huge success – starting a series of 12 films, multiple games, and a TV series (with a new series in the pipeline). The reboot, released in 2009, was directed by Jared Padalik
Padalecki) and Danielle Panabaker (Danielle
Panabaker), which aims to reinvigorate the series for modern audiences. Although the film became the second highest-grossing work in the series, it received unanimous reviews from the media and fans.
In 2017, “Friday the 13th Game Edition” started with crowdfunding and later developed into a full multiplayer online game. However, due to litigation issues surrounding the IP, the game stopped updating in 2018 and shut down the servers completely in 2020.
However, for the upcoming sequel, fans have called on developer Illfonic to move to a single-player story game and invest in a higher production budget. The development team is well aware of the players’ voices, so it may not be difficult to create a narrative-centric, go-getter, single-player experience.
