Friday the 13th Series Coming to Small Screen

Following last year’s reports of the franchise returning to the small screen, Friday the 13th series has been confirmed by Deadline. It will be aired on The CW. The series will be directly related to Jason Voorhees and Crystal Lake.

Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle will be the creators of the show. Steven said, “I don’t think we really wanted to do a show about a guy with a machete chasing girls in tube tops. We couldn’t do that on a weekly basis… So what ends up happening is, a cop comes into town, looking for his brother. He realizes his brother was there searching into the past murders, and realizes that his personal story is tied into Jason’s personal story.

He added, “What we’re going to do is basically acknowledge that the people came to this town after these killings happened and they made all these movies. And now the town has a stigma. Our show is, ‘Here’s the true story. Here’s the real story of Jason.’ It’s been taken and exploited. So we have the young crowd who doesn’t know who he is except for what they’ve seen in the movies. The older crowd is afraid of him. We have a lot of people who have scars from him. The underlying thematic of the whole thing is that Jason is a monster in this town. He openly wears a mask. But everybody in this town wears a mask. Underneath those is the monster”.