Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham reveals a potential release window for the upcoming Peacock and A24 Crystal Lake prequel series.
was originally tapped as the series’ showrunner before he then left the project in May 2024. In August 2024, it was revealed that Welcome to Derry’s, Cunningham said that, while there was no official confirmation as of yet, he believes the series is eyeing a Halloween 2025 release window at this time.“Last I heard, they’re talking about shooting it in Australia at the end of this year and releasing on Halloween 2025,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham said of the series, “Some time ago, the rights expired on the original script, so then there became doubt about who owns what after 35 years. That was being worked out by lawyers, and we were trying to figure out what we were going to do. We were trying to do a TV series, which we actually got pretty far down the road on. I was very happy with that.
“Finally, A24 decided that they would hook up with Peacock and do a Friday the 13th TV series. They were gonna hire Bryan Fuller, a very good writer. In the world of television, the showrunner, the main writer, is the star. That’s the person you have to have complete faith in, because it’s not the ability to write one story; it’s the ability to tell a new story every week. That’s very, very hard, and very few people can do it.
“Bryan got the job, and it was greenlit. It was going forward, they started to set up the writers’ room, and they didn’t like the road he was going down. They felt it was gonna be too dark. So they abandoned it and then hired another writer .”Brandon Schreur has been writing about comics, movies, television shows, and all things pop culture for roughly five years. He's a lifelong cinephile who spends way, way too much money buying Blu-rays and trade paperbacks.
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