'Friday the 13th' is a planned reboot of the popular slasher film franchise started in 1978. Nick Antosca, former screenwriter for the film, revealed that his version of the screenplay featured a setting in the 1980s. He also admitted to working closely with director David Bruckner, who has also exited the project.
According to the Celebrity Café, Antosca was tasked at creating a screenplay for the upcoming reboot of the classic horror-slasher film series featuring the iconic fictional murderer Jason Voorhees. He was replaced as screenwriter last month and admitted to working closely with then director David Bruckner for a version that was not found footage.
Antosca revealed, "[Paramount and Platinum Dunes] had a found-footage draft, and then I came in and did a page one rewrite [to] rethink, to some degree, making it not found-footage... I worked really closely with [Bruckner]. His idea from the first meeting was he wanted [Friday the 13th] to really have likable, real characters, and to be set in the 80's." It was to be a unique "period piece" reminiscent of an '80s throwback. He added, "I'm bummed they didn't do the draft [but] I'm more bummed that David is not on the project [anymore]."
According to another article by JoBlo, Antosca is best known for his work on NBC's critically-acclaimed television series 'Hannibal'. He was also attached to 'Teen Wolf', 'The Player' and 'Last Resort'. He has since then been replaced by Aaron Guzikowski, writer for 'Prisoners', who was tasked at re-writing the current script.
Meanwhile, Bruckner also opened up about his disappointment at leaving the planned reboot. According to Fangoria, he admitted that he had two versions for the new 'Friday the 13th' film. He said, "I had some very specific ideas; if we were going to do that, I felt it needed to be single-camera. I didn't think you could bring a whole bunch of media into the room, and that we had to do a kind of classic found-footage movie."
Bruckner added that although the found-footage style of filmmaking had its own obstacles, they ended up re-structuring the project into something like a monster movie that explored the mythos of Jason even further. He said, "It was a return to form in a lot of ways, and we really focused on the characters."
'Friday the 13th' is a planned reboot of the popular slasher film that followed the story of Jason Voorhees, a ruthless killer who sought out revenge after drowning in Camp Crystal Lake as a boy. The first film created, 'Hallooween', was released in 1978 and was met with commercial success. A series of sequels followed until it was rebooted in 2009 under director Marcus Nispel.
