Friday The 13th TV Series Has Been Scrapped

On Thursday, at the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Beverly Hills, The CW president Mark Pedowitz confirmed that the network is not moving forward with Crystal Lake Chronicles (working title), a television series based on the Friday The 13thhorror franchise.

“We had better pilots,” explained Pedowitz (via Entertainment Weekly). “The bottom line is we felt we had stronger things to go with, and we didn’t go forward with it. It was well-written, it was darker than we wanted it to be, and we didn’t believe it had sustainability … We didn’t believe that it was a sustainable script, a sustainable series. It was a very good pilot, but not a sustainable series.”

The show was planned as an hour-long drama series and would have supposedly centered around the eclectic characters of Crystal Lake, exploring how the fictional Crystal Lake from the Friday The 13th film series affected the real city and its inhabitants. Additionally, two killer, a hockey mask-wearing Jason Voorhees and a serious backwoods killer, were set to appear, and new secrets pertaining to the unstable Voorhees‘ family would’ve come to light.

The series was being executive produced by Sean S. Cunningham, the director of the original 1980 Friday the 13thfilm, Randall Emmett and George Furla of EFO Films, Mark Canton of Atmosphere Entertainment MM, Steve B. Harris of Diversion3 Entertainment, and Ted Fox of Fox Entertainment.

On a positive note: Several days ago, Paramount Pictures announced that Breck Eisner (The Crazies, Sahara and The Last Witch Hunter) has been hired to direct the next Friday the 13th movie.