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Friday the 13th Remake - The Complete Story
By Dave Dreher
Feb 15, 2006, 08:17

This news has been breaking over the last few days and I wanted to wait till the full story was out instead of posting little snippets of info here and there.  It is big news though.  The horror remake factory known as Platinum Dune which of course is run by Michael Bay, the same folks who brought us the TCM remake and Amityville Horror remake and are slated to release the TCM prequel later this year are heading up a “re-envisioning of Friday the 13^th.

The early reports indicated that it was going to be a remake of the classic campers in peril tale.  Word is out now that the film will instead be a prequel to the Jason mythos.  Bloody Disgusting has been the outlet that has been all over this one and here is some of what they have posted:

Although this picture is rumored to be a remake, we've been told it may be more of a "re-envisionment" of the series. From our anonymous scooper, we've were informed that Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes apparently WANTED to remake it but would said "let's do something different" instead. New Line was super cool with it. So the next 'Friday' more of an ULTIMATE FRIDAY THE 13th... if you know anything about the Marvel comics ULTIMATE series.

Here is what Variety has posted about the project:

Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes shingle is coming aboard to produce the 11th outing in the sturdy "Friday the 13th" franchise for New Line.

Studio's hoping to fast-track the project -- centered on the origins of the Jason Voorhees character -- so that the pic can be released three weeks before Halloween on Friday, Oct. 13. Bay will produce with Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.

New Line's hired Mark Wheaton ("Son of the Morning Star") to pen the script. Studio prexy Toby Emmerich is overseeing along with execs Cale Boyter and Jeff Katz.

The original "Friday the 13th" -- set at a reopened camp that had closed 20 years earlier -- took nearly $40 million in domestic grosses in 1980. That's still the best domestic performance in the series, although New Line's spinoff pic "Freddy Vs. Jason" was a solid success in 2003, with $82 million domestic.

Platinum Dunes, which Bay launched in 2001 as a low-budget horror specialist, produced New Line's 2003 remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and its upcoming "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning."

What I am basically getting from the BD report is that the new film will follow the “creating” of Jason starting with him witnessing his mother’s death and work through the years becoming the monster that we all know, minus his trip into space of course.

Lots more on this one soon, so keep it here for all the latest.