Right here’s some spooky information in your Halloween: Peacock has handed a straight-to-series order to a Friday the thirteenth prequel, the streamer introduced on Monday.
Plot particulars are scant at this level, however the collection, titled Crystal Lake, is billed as an “expanded prequel” to the long-running horror movie franchise with hockey mask-wearing killer Jason Voorhees at its middle. Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller will write and executive-produce the prequel, additionally serving as showrunner.
“Friday the thirteenth is without doubt one of the most iconic horror franchises in film historical past and we had been dying to revisit this story with our upcoming drama collection Crystal Lake,” NBCUniversal Tv and Streaming’s chairman of leisure content material Susan Rovner mentioned in an announcement. “We will’t wait to get to work with Bryan Fuller, a gifted, visionary creator who I’ve had the pleasure of being a longtime good friend and collaborator, together with our unimaginable companions at A24, on this up to date model for Peacock that may thrill long-standing followers of the franchise.”
The unique Friday the thirteenth movie, with Jason terrorizing counselors at a summer time camp, was launched in 1980 and turn out to be a box-office hit, spawning a franchise that features 9 sequels, a Nightmare on Elm Road crossover Freddy vs. Jason and a 2009 big-screen reboot. A earlier TV adaptation, Friday the thirteenth: The Sequence, ran in first-run syndication from 1987 to 1990. The CW additionally developed an hour-long collection primarily based on the franchise, but it surely by no means made it previous the pilot stage.
