With
Friday the 13th gearing up for a reboot in 2016 (yes, ANOTHER reboot), a popular rumour that has been circulating the web since the film's announcement has suggested that the film will be found footage. The internet took a sigh of relief when this rumour was debunked, thanks to a conversation producer Brad Fuller had with
Shock Till You Drop (who incorrectly regarded the film as a sequel).
“I could just say that for a long time we were stalled,” Fuller told
Shock.
“I think you guys reported that the movie was going to be a found footage movie and that was a road that we went down and tried to figure out. Ultimately, I think Michael, Drew and I felt that we couldn’t figure that out, so we kind of jettisoned that whole notion and we had to start over. We’re in the latter phases of that starting over and hopefully we’re getting a script in the next month or two, and we’ll go back to Crystal Lake.”
By the sound of it, we now know that those found footage rumours were 100% false, right? Not exactly. Fuller goes on to explain that the film was at point considered to be found footage but those plans were scrapped due to fan backlash:
"There was an outpouring of negative sentiment when it was revealed that Friday the 13th might have been a found footage movie. That was very clear to us that there was not a groundswell of support for that. That had tremendous amount of impact on us and only substantiated our concern about doing it as a found footage movie. Ultimately, the fact that the movie’s been delayed for a long time might be a good thing, because now the movie’s not going to be found footage.”
Many
Friday the 13th fans will undoubtedly be pleased that the film will no longer be found footage, as Hollywood has been criticised for its over saturation and misusage of the technique to the point of it becoming a cliche. Found footage or not,
Friday the 13th hits theatres in 2016.