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American horror film franchise Friday the 13th is being made into a TV series.
The series featuring masked serial killer Jason Voorhees is officially in development with writers Steve Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle on-board, reported Deadline.
The duo is planning a horror/crime thriller firmly grounded in reality, with a detective’s search for his missing brother throwing up a connection to Jason, who was long believed dead.
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Executive producers on the hour-long series will include Sean S Cunningham, who directed the original movie in 1980.
Talk of a possible Friday the 13th TV adaptation first surfaced a year ago.
A series of 12 feature films have explored Jason’s relationship to Crystal Lake and his own twisted family dynamic.
The most recent Friday the 13th movie was a 2009 reboot produced by Michael Bay and starring Derek Mears as Jason, with Hannibal writer Nick Antosca penning a sequel script for a mooted May 2016 release.
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