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'Friday the 13th' Reboot In The Works With Roy Lee & LeBron James You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content October 22, 2018 11:27am SERVICES
TO SHARE THIS PAGE. Deadline has confirmed that Roy Lee‘s Vertigo Entertainment and LeBron James‘ SpringHill Entertainment are in talks to bring _Friday the 13th _back to the big screen. The
news comes in the wake of Universal / Miramax / Blumhouse’s _Halloween _hitting an all-time opening record for its slasher franchise with $76.2 million which also doubled as the second best
domestic debut ever in October. We hear that meetings are out with directors and writers now. It’s still very early. _Friday the 13th _screenwriter Victor Miller recently regained U.S.
rights to the franchise under copyright reclamation laws, and took the project to Vertigo and SpringHill so they could move it through Warner Bros. Miller won U.S. rights after a legal
battle with director Sean Cunningham and his Horror Inc. label; Cunningham produced the 1980 film. The Copyright Act gives authors a second chance and reclaiming their work after 35 years,
after selling it for a low price. In the case of Miller, he reportedly sold _Friday the 13th _for less than $10,000 and wasn’t involved in future sequels. There are many moving parts here.
Warner Bros has some foreign on the franchise, having handled it via New Line previously. Last year, in the wake of _Rings _failing, Paramount pulled the plug on a Platinum Dunes version of
_Friday the 13th _after losing faith in horror reboots. That attitude is now changing in Hollywood with the recent success of _Halloween. _ James and SpringHill are repped by WME. Lee is
repped by CAA and Stone, Genow. Bloody Disgusting first reported the news. WATCH ON DEADLINE 16 Comments JavaScript is required to load the comments. MARKETPLACE SITE ad