Alexandre Aja Talks What Would Have Been His Friday the 13th
Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D, The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, Haute Tension) recently stated that at one time he wanted to get into the director’s chair for the next chapter in the Friday the 13th series, and we can only imagine the insanity that would have ensued.
“It’s very different; I mean, the Friday the 13th script was… very, very smart and a great opportunity to do something that was [at] the same time eerie, [at] the same time reinventing and renouncing the wall,” Aja told Bloody-Disgusting. “I think Friday the 13th was such a cool world because Jason became an icon and became such a cultural legend that it took like almost four movies to create the character the way people see him, and it would be really interesting to go back and say, you know, ‘What would be a movie that people can bring back all together?’ Friday the 13th has an amazing character, and I think there is room – and they have a script now that’s really, really amazing – to do something that’s absolutely scary and [at] the same time a way to re-establish the character for a new generation. I’m not the one doing it, but I will definitely go see it.”
Aja continues, “It’s hard because I’m not, you know… I can’t talk about this project because I’m not the one directing it, but I think… I would have tried to do something that would please me as an audience member, and I think we all as a fan of… Jason and as a fan of the genre, I think there is some respect to show to the energy, to the spirit, and you need to do something that’s absolutely stunning, shocking, and absolutely never goofy to make the right Friday the 13th.”
Breck Eisner (The Crazies) will be the man sitting in the director’s chair working from a script by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners).
We expect the new film to be released on October 13, 2017 – but that’s just a hunch at this point.
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