“You see, Jason was my son, and today is his birthday…”
Big news for fans of the Friday the 13th franchise as Peacock announced that Crystal Lake will premiere on Thursday, October 15th, according to a report on TV Line.
Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees with Callum Vinson playing her adorable little son Jason. Nick Cordileone (Warrior), Joy Suprano (Fleishman is in Trouble, Best Foot Forward), Danielle Kotch (Director’s Cut), and Phoenix Parnevik (Bel-Air, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter Is Dead) are also featured.
“It’s a paranoid ’70s thriller. It has all of the DNA of a slasher without quite being a slasher,” said showrunner Brad Caleb Kane. “There are rivers of blood in the show. There are very, I think, ingenious kill sequences and deaths and murders, but it’s all done in service of character and theme and place and time.”
Released on May 9, 1980, Friday the 13th earned $59.8 million at the box office against a budget of nearly $650k. The film, which was written by Victor Miller and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, starred Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon.
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