The last time we have seen Jason Voorhees donning his hockey mask and going to work slashing people was in 2009’s Friday the 13th remake. If it were up to Jason Blum, head of Blumhouse Productions, another remake would probably be already in the making.
Blum has expressed his desire to remake the classic slasher horror movie back in 2018 as his studio released Halloween and in a recent interview with CinePOP he repeated this notion saying, “I’d love to do Friday the 13th. I’d do it as a movie,”
However, it is unlikely he will be able to fulfill his wish anytime soon. The franchise will have to stay on the sidelines as a legal dispute between Director Sean S. Cunningham and Horror Inc. and screenwriter Victor Miller is still being deliberated in court. Miller has filed a copyright termination claiming he is entitled to the rights of the franchise.
In recent years, Blumhouse has positioned itself as one of the leading studios in the horror genre. In 2009 it released Paranormal Activity which grossed over $200 million. The last decade has seen a series of Blumhouse produced low budget but successful horror movies as well as some noteworthy movies such as Get Out, which got 4 Oscars nominations.
