Halloween Horror Nights 2025 (USH) - Speculation & Rumors

[KlownzNskullZ]

Jason's existence has transcended well past the movies he has come from. Him, Michael, and Ghostface are by far the most iconic slashers in appearance, and most can recognize them even if they've never seen the films.

People will know who Jason is, he’s in mortal kombat, that other WB game and he had the Friday the 13th game itself which was well liked.

 

[bdubsCEO]

I’m out of the loop, can someone explain why it’s been 16 years since there was a Friday movie? You’d think we’d be getting movies every few years given how much money they could make

 

[Viator]

I’m out of the loop, can someone explain why it’s been 16 years since there was a Friday movie? You’d think we’d be getting movies every few years given how much money they could make

The rights have been in hell for over a decade following the Michael Bay reboot. Tons of legal battles to determine things with the Friday the 13th IP.

It was why Friday the 13th: The Game died in a ditch because of that in particular. And while things have now been settled and things have moved forward, especially as Jason Universe is moving forward with the A24/Peacock Crystal Lake series—films going forward seem to be near impossible.

 

[CobraCommander666]

I’m out of the loop, can someone explain why it’s been 16 years since there was a Friday movie? You’d think we’d be getting movies every few years given how much money they could make

The rights have been in hell for over a decade following the Michael Bay reboot. Tons of legal battles to determine things with the Friday the 13th IP.

It was why Friday the 13th: The Game died in a ditch because of that in particular. And while things have now been settled and things have moved forward, especially as Jason Universe is moving forward with the A24/Peacock Crystal Lake series—films going forward seem to be near impossible.

To piggyback on this, here is some more high level details: the rights ended up in a legal battle between the screenwriter of the original movie, and the producer of the movies. Everything was frozen for a decade of battles. The writer won the rights eventually but only for the original movie and he is the one working with Peacock for the Camp Crystal Lake show. The movie producer owns the rights to the sequels. This is tricky because the well known mask wearing adult Mutant Jason was not in part 1 but his backstory is so it get's messy if they do not work together.

They may move forward separately on their own projects referencing what they own and if so we may get altered stories. Since the writer only owns part 1, he can only reference from that hence why Camp Crystal Lake is a prequel and sounds like it focuses on Mama Vorhees and may not include an adult Jason at all. Since the Producer owns the rights to the sequels, he could eventually make a new movie that does not reference the first movie at all. So it would have to be Jason with a new last name (or no last name) and different location names, etc.

All in all it is a very unfortunate situation especially since we are in a time where nostalgia horror sequels are doing very well.

 

[Viator]

To piggyback on this, here is some more high level details: the rights ended up in a legal battle between the screenwriter of the original movie, and the producer of the movies. Everything was frozen for a decade of battles. The writer won the rights eventually but only for the original movie and he is the one working with Peacock for the Camp Crystal Lake show. The movie producer owns the rights to the sequels. This is tricky because the well known mask wearing adult Mutant Jason was not in part 1 but his backstory is so it get's messy if they do not work together.

They may move forward separately on their own projects referencing what they own and if so we may get altered stories. Since the writer only owns part 1, he can only reference from that hence why Camp Crystal Lake is a prequel and sounds like it focuses on Mama Vorhees and may not include an adult Jason at all. Since the Producer owns the rights to the sequels, he could eventually make a new movie that does not reference the first movie at all. So it would have to be Jason with a new last name (or no last name) and different location names, etc.

All in all it is a very unfortunate situation especially since we are in a time where nostalgia horror sequels are doing very well.

I had thought the plan for Crystal Lake was to adapt the Friday films into TV, so that way they could've skirted around the lines and to allow them that flexibility again.