Tarantino to Write/Direct next Friday the 13th?

[Jonbo298]

arch 07, 2005 - IGN FilmForce has learned that none other than Oscar-winner Quentin Tarantino is in final negotiations to write and direct the Ultimate Jason Voorhees Movie, an all new Friday the 13th for New Line.

While the rumor mill had long suggested that the next movie might be Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, that project never came together for a number of reasons.

Fans will instead be treated to the Ultimate Jason Voorhees Movie. The project will be a co-venture between New Line and Paramount Pictures. It is expected to be a "quickie" that could get underway as early as this year!

Tarantino's production company, A Band Apart, referred us to the William Morris Agency. A rep at WMA would only advise us that Tarantino has "not yet" been offered the job while refusing to elaborate any further.

If there's any (ultra-violent) filmmaker who could make Jason cool and scary again, it'd be the man who resurrected Travolta. I just wonder if the movie will be retitled Kill Jason?

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/594/594028p1.html

If this pans out to be him, I cant wait to see how "interesting" this all turns out :p

[GameMaster]

The evolution of Jason Voorhees:

http://jerome.galica.free.fr/cinetv/JasonVoorhees'.gif

[Jonbo298]

haha, Nice find GM, +rep :p

[The Germanator]

Wow! You cannot believe how excited I would be for this. I'm in love with the cheesy slasher horror genre, and my only fear is that this movie might actually be good if Taratino did it! It would be too much of a shock for a slasher horror to actually be good.

[MuGen]

Mehh... I'm not too fond of how Jason has turned out (the whole cybernetic thing)....hopefully Tarantino does a major overhaul of his current image... it's just not scary anymore with a cyborg slashing with a machete... it has to be the old jumpsuit.

[Blackmane]

I'm sure if Tarantino went to work on it that he could make it work out a lot better.

That is just my hopes, though...

[Dark Samurai]

Tarantino better not kill it, (no pun). That movie scary factor HAS to be old school style, to be terrified like that again, would guarantee success....