Saturday
14Jun2008
First Set Visit to the New 'Friday the 13th'
Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 8:26PM
I'm not going to pretend to care that much about the
upcoming
Friday the 13th remockery currently in
production. After all, it's not really a remake because if you remember the
first film, Mrs. Voorhees was the killer right up until the end, and she's not
in this one.Also, Jason was but a wee mutant
then, hardly the strapping, indomitable figure he'd become in later films. In
this one, he's sporting the mask, all right, and he's a full grown dude.
Another reason I can't spend too much of my time
worrying about is the overwhelming probability that, as a film critic, Platinum
Dunes and Paramount won't ever let me see it. To be fair, Paramount is without
question the best of the major studios at screening bad movies for the press,
because they've had a ton over the last five years, and I think I've seen them
all except Aeon Flux.
MTV recently visited the set of the new
Friday the 13th, which we also can't call a sequel because Jason's back at
Camp Crystal Lake and apparently, this is the first time he's going on a killing
spree. So, like Jesus, we're skipping Jason's childhood.
We get a glimpse at the cast, a nice-looking assortment
of young actors including
Jared Padalecki and
Amanda Righetti, with
Derek Mears from The Hills Have Eyes 2
wearing the iconic hockey mask.
My favorite part of this video is the great care taken
to make sure Jason's dirtied, bloodied, beaten up mask looks just right whenever
it makes an appearance.
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