Jason Voorhees returns to the cinema for a 13th Friday the 13th

This new horror film will be directed by Steve Miner, a veteran of the saga.

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The killer with the hockey mask and the machete will be back in action. Nearly eighteen years after the last film, Jason Voorhees is preparing to make his return to the big screen in a thirteenth installment of Friday the 13thexpected in 2027. And the production has chosen to entrust the controls to a veteran of the saga: Steve Miner.

The director knows Jason’s world particularly well. It was he who put a machete in his hands in Friday the 13th: The Friday Killer (Friday the 13th Part II), in 1981, before giving him his famous hockey mask in Friday the 13th: Murders in 3 Dimensions (Friday the 13th Part III), in 1982. He will therefore find the character he helped transform into an icon of horror cinema, from a script signed by the young screenwriter David Fliegel.

This new opus obviously hopes to build on the success of the series Crystal Lakedeveloped for Peacock and A24 (to be seen in France on HBO Max).

It will be independently financed and produced by the Barsamian family, who control the franchise through their company Horror, Inc.

A return to the independent roots of the saga, whose first film, directed by Sean S. Cunningham in 1980, was produced for around $550,000.

“Bringing Steve back in a fully independent model allows us to maintain the creative control necessary to honor what makes Jason horror cinema’s greatest killer and deliver the theatrical event audiences expect today.” says Robbie Barsamian, executive vice president of Horror, Inc.

Steve Miner was also delighted to find the character: “When I put the hockey mask on Jason for Friday the 13th: 3D Murders, I knew it would create a really scary image that would work for the film. I never imagined that she would become one of the most iconic symbols of horror cinema. I’m excited to come back and continue this story.“

This will be the first film in the saga since the 2009 reboot, produced by Warner Bros. In the meantime, Jason will have already returned to the screens with Crystal Lake,as well as the short film Sweet Revengesigned Mike P. Nelson and unveiled to celebrate 45 years of Jason’s universe. Enough to prepare the ground before this thirteenth appointment at the cinema, which promises to reconnect with the violent deaths and the thrills which have made the reputation of the franchise.

No release date yet.