New Friday the 13th Prequel Movie and Video Game Are On the Way — 'They're Both In The Works And They're Both Coming'

Another Friday the 13th crippled is successful development.

That's according to Horror Inc.'s Robbie Barsamian, who confirmed astatine San Diego Comic-Con implicit the play that not lone are we getting a caller prequel movie, but a caller crippled acceptable successful the Jason Vorhees beingness is besides connected the way, too.

Barsamian stopped abbreviated of providing immoderate different meaningful details — truthful we don't adjacent cognize who's processing the game, fto unsocial what it'll beryllium about, who it whitethorn star, oregon erstwhile we'll get to play it — but "both [movie and game] are coming."

"I tin archer you that a caller sequel movie and caller sequel game, are astatine the apical of our list. It's wherever astir of our energy's going close now. And I tin archer you yet we're successful a presumption to present connected that," said Barsamian, arsenic spotted by BloodyDisgusting.

"While we're not officially announcing with our partners today, some are coming. They're some successful the works and they’re some coming."

This is, of course, connected apical of the caller Peacock show, Crystal Lake. Bryan Fuller, Marc Toberoff, Victor Mille, and Barsamian are producing this fearfulness series, which besides promises to beryllium a prequel to the movie franchise. Quite however this fits successful with a sequel movie, however, we're not yet sure.

For 30 years, lumbering lunatic Jason Voorhees — whether helium was a backwoods psycho oregon an undead maniac — terrorized New Jersey's scenic Crystal Lake (and occasionally Manhattan and aboriginal Outer Space). By the 3rd Friday the 13th film, successful 1982, the murderous Jason yet acquired what would go his signature look, with a hockey disguise covering his misshapen face, transforming him into a fearfulness villain icon for the ages.

If you've yet to walk immoderate prime clip with our Jason, here's our proposal connected the champion mode to ticker the Friday the 13th movie series. You'll ne'er look astatine a hockey disguise successful rather the aforesaid mode again.

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