This news can be looked at in a variety of ways, but whichever way you look at it, it's happening. Paramount Pictures has announced yet another reboot to the infamous Friday the 13th franchise, slated for release on March 13, 2015 (the first Friday the 13th of 2015).
Jason was last seen on the big screen in Marcus Nispel's reboot in 2009. While the critics largely lauded it (then again, who cares what they say), it still scraped in over $90 million world wide. While there is very little known about this new addition, what we do know is that it is not a sequel to the reboot but another reboot itself, and that Paramount is tossing around the idea of a found footage concept for the film.
As always, we are stuck in the "wait and see" game.
Today it was announced that MGM has partnered with Fox 2000 for co-financing and distribution of the modern take on the classic ghost film Poltergeist. Production begins this fall and I've already shared that the reboot will be directed by Gil Kenan, but it is being written by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Lindsay-Abaire (Oz: the Great and Powerful).
Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures will produce.
We've also got a synopsis, which seems to read exactly like the original: “In a revisionist take on the classic horror film, a family
struggling to make ends meet relocates to an outdated suburban home and
is confronted by an angry spirit who kidnaps their youngest daughter and
challenges them to band together to rescue her from the clutches of
evil.”
So, what are your thoughts?
