Sean S. Cunningham, who directed the unique Friday the 13th, has revealed a possible launch window for Crystal Lake.

Crystal Lake is the forthcoming Friday the 13th prequel sequence that’s being made for Peacock by A24. Bryan Fuller was initially tapped as the sequence’ showrunner earlier than he then left the challenge in May 2024. In August 2024, it was revealed that Welcome to Derry’s Brad Caleb Kane had been employed to switch Fuller.

Per Bloody Disgusting, Cunningham mentioned that, whereas there was no official affirmation as of but, he believes the sequence is eyeing a Halloween 2025 launch window at the moment.

What did Friday the 13th’s Sean S. Cunningham say about Crystal Lake?

“Last I heard, they’re talking about shooting it in Australia at the end of this year and releasing on Halloween 2025,” Cunningham mentioned. “But I’ve heard versions of that story for so long, I don’t put a lot of credibility into it. There’s just so many things that can go sideways.”

Cunningham mentioned of the sequence, “Some time in the past, the rights expired on the unique script, so then there grew to become doubt about who owns what after 35 years. That was being labored out by attorneys, and we had been attempting to determine what we had been going to do. We had been attempting to do a TV sequence, which we really obtained fairly far down the highway on. I used to be very pleased with that. I assumed it was going to be plenty of enjoyable, after which the rights factor blew up and the TV sequence obtained postponed, after which the pandemic arrived.

“Finally, A24 determined that they’d hook up with Peacock and do a Friday the 13th TV sequence. They had been gonna rent Bryan Fuller, an excellent author. In the world of tv, the showrunner, the essential author, is the star. That’s the particular person you must have full religion in, as a result of it’s not the potential to write down one story; it’s the potential to inform a brand new story each week. That’s very, very onerous, and only a few individuals can do it.

“Bryan got the job, and it was greenlit. It was going forward, they started to set up the writers’ room, and they didn’t like the road he was going down. They felt it was gonna be too dark. So they abandoned it and then hired another writer [Brad Caleb Kane].”