FRIDAY THE 13TH Reboot Will No Longer Use Found Footage Style

Back in 2013, word came out that the new Friday the 13th reboot from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company would tell the story using the found footage style. Fans of the franchise were not pleased at that news, and as always, they voiced their concerns here and on other sites online. But this time, the filmmakers actually seemed to listen to the complaints, because producer Brad Fuller told Shock Till You Drop that they're now abandoning that idea altogether:

“Listen, there was an outpouring of negative sentiment when it was revealed that Friday the 13th might have been a found footage movie. That was very clear to us that there was not a groundswell of support for that. That had tremendous amount of impact on us and only substantiated our concern about doing it as a found footage movie. Ultimately, the fact that the movie’s been delayed for a long time might be a good thing, because now the movie’s not going to be found footage.”

I'm guessing that update will certainly allow a large portion of the fan base to breathe a collective sigh of relief. While the found footage style may have brought a new visual element to the franchise, it really wouldn't make too much sense that a bunch of kids would be filming Jason Voorhees as he slashes people to death.

Fuller continues, giving some info about where director David Bruckner and the rest of the team currently stand on the new movie:

“...that was a road that we went down and tried to figure out. Ultimately, I think Michael, Drew [Form, another producer] and I felt that we couldn’t figure that out, so we kind of jettisoned that whole notion and we had to start over. We’re in the latter phases of that starting over and hopefully we’re getting a script in the next month or two, and we’ll go back to Crystal Lake.”

The new Friday the 13th film (which could explain Jason's immortality) already has a Friday the 13th release date, set for May 13th, 2016.