Fuller Talks F13 Sequel

IGN chats with the producer about the next Jason movie.

IGN recently took a nice, relaxing trip to Elm Street to meet with Freddy Krueger himself -- more on that in the coming weeks -- and in the process was able to chat up Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form to discuss the future of the Friday franchise.

"There's a nice date coming up next summer that we hope everyone can see another Friday the 13th on," said Form."

When pressed on the status of a script, Fuller replied, "Yes, with Shannon Swift. So, for 2009, I think that it's this and the sequel to Friday the 13th and then beyond that, I don't know."

Then came the question: "Is it possible that we may see a Friday film in the snow?"

Fuller smiled, turning, asking, "How'd you hear that?" and after a moment responded, "You know, we were having a blast on the set; we want to have fun. We also want to bring things [audiences] haven't seen before and one of the things that they haven't seen before is Jason in the snow."

When asked about the recent trend toward 3-D, and the singular 3-D Friday film in the franchise, Fuller was a little less confident. "It's certainly been talked about. The financial ramifications of doing a movie in 3-D on a budget that size, because it's not like they're going to say to us, 'Yeah, well, why don't you make a sequel and here's twice as much money.' It doesn't go that way. Our movies are virtually all the exact same budget and I guarantee you if we make that movie it'll be the same budget as the original. And we'll say, 'Hey, do you want to do it in 3-D?' And they'll say, 'Yeah, let's talk about it.' And then when they see that it's six or seven million dollars more they'll probably opt out unless something that we are not expecting happens. I suspect it will not be in 3-D, although we'd love to make a 3-D horror movie. We'd love to do it; they just don't throw that money our way."

Fuller wrapped the conversation with a note of caution, saying, "Here's the other problem, we don't have a release date, we don't have a green-lit movie. Let me be very clear… Friday the 13th Part 2, we don't have a script, it's not green-lit, and we have no idea what's going to happen. If it gets green-lit and we're able to mount it in a reasonable amount of time, we would hope the movie would open on August 13, 2010."

And it will take place in the snow?

Fuller laughed, shaking his head.

"No, I can tell you this, the movie itself will not take place in the snow. I don't want to sit in Winnipeg with him for two months in the snow. We did that once, I don't want to do it again."