A Friday the thirteenth prequel present titled Crystal Lake is coming to Peacock, and now its showrunner, Bryan Fuller, is clearing up some misconceptions. In a brand new interview, Fuller defined that the present can, actually, use something from the Friday the thirteenth franchise as a result of it’s a streaming sequence, not a film. He additionally revealed why the present is prone to go not less than two seasons, what number of seasons he has deliberate, and that if the present goes 10 seasons, he has a plan for that.

“If we get 10 seasons, I’m going to make a concerted effort to discover a approach to rationally and dramatically and, in some trend, go to area,” Fuller informed Fangoria. “I can’t think about it going 10 seasons, however I’ll put that on the market that, uh … effectively, I haven’t gotten previous laying out the primary three seasons, actually, so I suppose it’s very simple for me to say, yeah, if we get to 10 seasons, we’re going to area. Wait and see!”

When information broke of the present coming, reviews have been that due to the difficult rights points surrounding the Friday the thirteenth franchise, the present wouldn’t have the ability to use something from movies after the primary film. Which, principally, meant no hockey masks for Jason. However Fuller defined that’s not the case.

“As a streaming sequence, we’ve got the rights to do every thing beneath the Friday the thirteenth umbrella,” he mentioned. “The film rights are a totally totally different factor. They’re tied up at New Line and are tremendous, tremendous messy and doubtless received’t be untangled anytime quickly, however so far as us chickens within the tv business, uh, roost, we’ve got entry to something and every thing that Friday the thirteenth has finished up till this level.”

Being because the present is a prequel although, followers speculated simply how far earlier than the primary movie the present may probably happen. Years? A long time? Centuries? Fuller couldn’t get into specifics of when the present is ready or what the story is however he mentioned it’s much less a prequel and extra a “pre-remake-uel.” What does that imply? Effectively, he mentioned Jason might be part of the sequence and “I believe over the course of the sequence you will notice many acquainted manifestations of Jason.” In order that makes it sound prefer it’ll be a lot, a lot nearer to the unique tales than many anticipated.

As well as, Fuller defined that Crystal Lake is coming to Peacock as a result of the streamer actually rolled out the crimson carpet for his workforce. “There was a bidding battle on this, and [Peacock] got here in sturdy and gave us a full-season dedication with an enormous penalty if we don’t do a second season,” he mentioned. “So it’s type of a two-season dedication [laughs], however actually simply the first-season dedication. We’re going to have roughly 5 occasions the per-episode price range that we had on Hannibal.”

You learn that proper. “5 occasions the per-episode price range” of Hannibal. A present that regarded wonderful. No marvel Fuller thinks, if the present goes 10 seasons, he’ll have the ability to pull a Jason X and go to area. “It would completely be recognizable for the hardcore Friday the thirteenth followers, however may even have an attraction to people who find themselves merely excited by top-shelf TV storytelling,” he mentioned.

Learn extra from Fuller over on Fangoria and maintain an eye fixed out for Crystal Lake someday sooner or later.

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