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After several false starts and a period looking like the movie was wandering around a forest, all looked to be getting back on bloody track for the latest reboot of the Friday The 13th concept as director Breck Eisner stepped aboard last year. But now Paramount has shut down the film weeks before it was due to start shooting.
Whispers of fresh trouble for the reboot surfaced when the studio yanked it – alongside the World War Z sequel – from its planned release slot. While Jason Voorhees was to have been stalking screens in October, the movie is back in limbo. No official reason was given for the brakes being put on pre-production, though one source told The Hollywood Reporter that the movie was simply not ready to go. It probably didn't help that the studio's attempt to breathe new life into the Rings franchise didn't pay off as well as it might have hoped.
We'll have to wait and see what happens next, but for now, it appears that Friday The 13th, at least in its modern incarnation, is perennially unlucky.