Surprise! More 'Friday the 13th' Movies on the Way

My jaw certainly didn't hit the floor when I read at The Hollywood Reporter that Damien Shannon and Mark Swift were already writing another Friday the 13th movie. Shannon and Swift, which sounds like a morning zoo radio team, wrote the Jason Voorhees reboot that set a record for a horror movie opening a couple weeks ago. The big news in all of this is that it isn't expected that Platinum Dunes wants to follow the path previously set out by the first Friday the 13th franchise. The idea is that Jason will embark on new killing sprees that have no direct relation to the many subsequent chapters of the original series. When Jason comes back, which seems like a certainty even with the sudden drop-off after the film's big opening day, there will more than likely be some new faces. Director Marcus Nispel probably won't come back and stars Jared Padalecki and Amanda Righetti might be otherwise occupied. Then again, since the series is about Jason, why bother? As for when the bodies will hit the floor again, The Reporter says the second half of 2010, and yes, August 13th is a Friday.