After the Halloween trilogy and The Exorcist: Devotion , Blumhouse is interested in another saga, Friday the 13th .
In Hollywood, a franchise that works and a franchise that will never really die. Evil Dead , Hellraiser , Scream , the list goes on. In 2018, almost ten years after Rob Zombie’s two films, the Halloween saga was resurrected by director David Gordon Green . He is also preparing to bring a new franchise to life, The Exorcist , with a film called The Exorcist: Devotion (which was revealed in images) . Behind these two attempts, we also find a company, Blumhouse Productions, founded and managed by Jason Blum .
A heavyweight in horror cinema, Blumhouse is notably behind the Paranormal Activity , Insidious and American Nightmare franchises . Blumhouse also produced Us and Get Out by Jordan Peele, several films by M. Night Shyamalan and the M3GAN phenomenon in 2022. After the success of the new Halloween films , Jason Blum was interested in The Exorcist , and plans to make a new trilogy, but the company has another franchise in its sights, Friday the 13th .
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Originally, Friday the 13th was a slasher directed by Sean S. Cunningham released in 1980, inspired by the success of Halloween two years earlier. The consequences quickly followed, until the overdose. Friday the 13th , the best bad slasher saga, is now made up of twelve films, the last of which, a remake of the original, was released in 2009. If the reboot of the saga has already been mentioned, the arrival of Blumhouse in discussions could move the process forward . According to Ryan Turek, one of the Blumhouse producers interviewed by the media Inverse , Jason Blum would be interested in Friday the 13th :
“Jason Blum and I agree that we’d like to take on Friday the 13th. I’d really like to go back to basics. You don’t need a lot of ingredients to make a Friday the 13th movie. It takes camp. vacation, campers, Jason Voorhees and his mask. I’ve already said that Halloween is the ultimate slasher in my opinion. It’s my favorite slasher. But I can only bow to Friday the 13th as a franchise. I love everything about this franchise.”
If success is achieved for The Exorcist: Devotion , in cinemas on October 11, 2023 , we can totally imagine the company embarking on the revival of a new franchise. As Ryan Turek noted, it doesn’t take much to make a Friday the 13th movie successful , which fits well with Blumhouse’s strategy of producing low-budget horror films . David Gordon Green could even be assigned to direct a new trilogy, but as of yet, nothing is official.
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