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| Friday the 13th | |
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| Directed by | Marcus Nispel |
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| Written by | Screenplay: Damian Shannon Mark Swift Story: Damian Shannon Mark Swift Mark Wheaton Characters by: Victor Miller |
| Starring | Jared Padalecki Danielle Panabaker Aaron Yoo Amanda Righetti Travis Van Winkle Derek Mears |
| Music by | Steve Jablonsky |
| Cinematography | Daniel Pearl |
| Editing by | Ken Blackwell |
| Release date(s) | February 13, 2009 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Freddy vs. Jason |
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Friday the 13th is a 2009 American horror film directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a reboot of the Friday the 13th film series, whose last film was the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason. Nispel also helmed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for Freddy vs. Jason. The film stars Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees, with Jared Padalecki and Amanda Righetti portraying the male and female leads. It was released on Friday, February 13, 2009 , the film will take elements from the first three films.[2]
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Plot
On June 13, 1980, a young Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears) witnesses his mother (Nana Visitor) get beheaded by a camp counselor who was trying to escape Mrs. Voorhees's murderous rampage around Camp Crystal Lake. Approximately thirty years later, a group of vacationing friends — Wade (Jonathan Sadowski), Richie (Ben Feldman), Mike (Nick Mennell), Whitney (Amanda Righetti), and Amanda (America Olivo) — arrive at Crystal Lake on a camping trip, and to find some weed that was planted in the woods. As Mike and Whitney explore the woods, Jason begins to kill the rest of the group one-by-one. Jason also kills Mike, but instead of doing the same to Whitney he decides to kidnap her because she resembles his mother at a young age.
Six weeks later, Trent (Travis Van Winkle), along with his girlfriend Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), and their friends Chewie (Aaron Yoo), Chelsea (Willa Ford), Nolan (Ryan Hansen), Bree (Julianna Guill), and Lawrence (Arlen Escarpeta) arrive at Trent's summer cabin, which sits on Crystal Lake, unaware of the events that occurred a few weeks prior. Also in town is Clay (Jared Padalecki), who has come to Crystal Lake searching for his sister Whitney. Clay eventually makes his way to Trent's cabin, where Jenna agrees to help him look for his sister on the other side of the lake. As Clay and Jenna search for clues to Whitney's disappearance, Jason kills Cheslea and Nolan out on the lake. Clay and Jenna reach the old Crystal Lake campgrounds, where they witness Jason hauling a dead body into one of the abandoned camp houses.
Clay and Jenna run back to warn the others about Jason, who arrives shortly after them and cuts the power to the cabin. After killing Chewie and Lawrence, who ventured outside the house, Jason sneaks inside the cabin and kills Bree. Trent, Clay and Jenna escape the house, but Trent is killed shortly after when he reaches the main road. Jason then chases Clay and Jenna back to the campgrounds, where Clay discovers Jason's lair and finds his sister chained to the wall. Clay frees Whitney, and all three attempt to escape as Jason arrives. The trio find an exit, but Jenna is killed before she can get out. Jason comes after Clay and Whitney, who use Jason's love and memory of his mother to distract him long enough to stab him in the chest with his own machete. Afterward, Clay dumps Jason's lifeless body into the lake, but before he and Whitney can leave Jason bursts through the lake dock and grabs Whitney.
Production
Development
New Line Cinema's Toby Emmerich approached Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form of Platinum Dunes about restarting Friday the 13th in the same fashion that they had done with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. The trio agreed but first had to spend over a year securing the film rights from all respective parties, namely, Paramount Pictures, New Line and Sean Cunningham's Crystal Lake Entertainment.[3] Since Paramount still owned certain copyrights, the film initially could not use anything from the original series. Paramount, which wanted to be included, approached the producers and gave them license to use anything from the original films, including the title. With Paramount on board, Fuller and Form decided they wanted to use pieces from each of the first three films. Fuller stated, "I think there are moments we want to address, like how does the hockey mask happen. It’ll happen differently in our movie than in the third one. Where is Jason from, why do these killings happen, and what is Crystal Lake?" The producers even expressed an interest in using the character of Tommy Jarvis and stated that they wanted to work out an original story for Jason that would make sense.[4]
Ultimately, it was decided that Friday the 13th would not be an origin story, but that it would provide a sense of history as the film progressed. Jason would also transition from wearing a bag over his head—similar to the one seen in Friday the 13th Part 2—to finding and actually placing the hockey mask over his face, whereas in Friday the 13th Part III he obtains the mask off-screen and comes out of a barn already wearing it.[5] Form and Fuller went on to explain that the audience will get to see how Jason attains his hockey mask, and be given a reason for why he puts it on. The idea of using Tommy Jarvis as a main character was scrapped when they abandoned their initial efforts of doing an origin story. According to Fuller and Form they did not want to create Friday the 13th Part 11 or 12, but put their own spin on the mythology. They acknowledge that there were elements from the first four films that they liked and were going to use in the 2009 film, like how a particular character is killed or story points that they appreciated and wanted to reuse.[2]
Unlike The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake of 2003, and the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror, both of which were produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller, it was decided that Friday the 13th would not be a period piece like the other remakes. As Form and Fuller explained it, because the film was taking bits and pieces of the original three films, and to a lesser degree the fourth film, and was not an actual remake in the strictest sense, they felt that there was no reason why they could not tell the story in modern times.[2] Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, writers of Freddy vs. Jason, were announced in October 2007 to have been hired to pen a script for the remake.[6] It was reported that director Jonathan Liebesman was in negotiations to direct Friday the 13th in February 2006,[7] but because of scheduling conflicts Fuller and Form went with their second choice, Marcus Nispel.[2] Nispel was apprehensive to take the job, primarily on the idea of taking over another film franchise, but Fuller eventually convinced him.[3]
Writing
When Shannon and Swift sat down to work out the script for Friday the 13th, they decided to institute a few rules for themselves based on the mistakes that they recognized themselves from their experience with Freddy vs. Jason. First, the writing pair wanted their teens to "sound normal". For Shannon and Swift, they did not want the characters to even know Jason's name, or become what they saw as "the Scooby-Doo cliché where it's a bunch of kids trying to figure something out". The writers wanted to take the film "back-to-the-basics", with a leaner, meaner Jason. They also did not want to spend a lot of time covering Jason's childhood experiences, because they felt it would take away from the mystery of the character. Shannon and Swift wanted to create as realistic experience as possible. They crafted a scene where, as the audience follows Jason through one of his tunnels, you see a deer carcass lying on the ground. At a cost of $100,000 a carcass, Brad Fuller informed the pair that they would have to do without that particular element. Because of budget constraints, certain character deaths and the ending of the film had to be scaled down from what Shannon and Swift had originally envisioned when they wrote the scenes.[8]
One of these deaths included a kill in the water of Crystal Lake. Shannon and Swift had originally written the scene so that involved one of the female characters being stranded out on the lake for hours. Eventually, the girl would tire and drown, which Shannon and Swift felt was something they had not seen in this genre of movies. Ultimately, the call was to make the death quicker and more "visceral". Finding interesting ways to kill the characters was one of the problems the writers faced. The pair had to find a common ground, one where they could craft new killing methods and at the same time put their spin on some of the deaths that have appeared in previous installments of the film series. To accomplish this, Shannon and Swift included homages to the original series throughout their new film, like the presence of a wheelchair in Jason's tunnels—the character of Mark (Tom McBride) was a paraplegic who was killed by Jason in Friday the 13th Part 2—or the sweater that Pamela Voorhees wore in the original Friday the 13th.[8]
Casting
Stuntman Derek Mears was hired to portray Jason Voorhees at the recommendation of makeup special effects supervisor Scott Stoddard.[9][3] Mears's pleasant demeanor had the studio worried about his ability to portray such a menacing character on screen, but Mears assured them that he was up to the role.[3] Jared Padalecki signed on as the lead male who investigates what happened at Crystal Lake,[10] with Amanda Righetti taking the female lead.[11] Amanda Righetti had not read the script when she was initially offered the role. Wanting to be a part of the Friday the 13th franchise from the start, Righetti admitted that she was sold on the idea of acting in the film after she did read the script.[3] Danielle Panabaker, Jonathan Sadowski, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Julianna Guill round out the rest of the cast.[12][13] Nana Visitor was cast as Pamela Voorhees,[14] with Caleb Guss hired for the role of a young Jason.[15]
The casting process was difficult for producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on this film, more so than it was on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as Friday the 13th had more young actors to contend with and consistent casting/recasting all the way until filming began. Fuller and Form's first challenge was the size of their cast. Fuller and Form had thirteen young actors in Friday the 13th, whereas in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre they only had five. The pair had to continually recast parts to find the group that worked best together. This recasting process extended all the way to the start of film. Richard Burgi, who was cast as the sheriff, did not sign on until twelve hours before he had to start filming his scenes.[2]
