Mike Flanagan says Bryan Fuller “was onto something awesome” with FRIDAY THE 13TH CRYSTAL LAKE series

Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep) recently shared his disappointment regarding the Friday the 13th series, Crystal LakeThat My friend Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, dead like me, Star Trek; Discovery) was developing for Peacock.

Fuller, who served as producer and showrunner, ended up leaving the project, previously saying, “For reasons beyond our control, A24 has chosen to go a different route with the material. We hope the final product is something that Friday the 13th fans around the world will enjoy.”

Flanagan knew what Fuller wanted to do with the series, and you can tell he’s disappointed that it will never see the light of day.

He shared on X: “On this Friday the 13th, I can’t help but reflect on the CRYSTAL LAKE series that was to come. @BryanFuller had something great. I’ll be eagerly awaiting his excellent DUST BUNNY…”

It was previously revealed that Charlize Theron’s Life was on board to play Jason Voorhees’ mother, Pamala. The series would pick up after the drowning of young Jason Voorhees, and would be a “deconstruction” of the first four Paramount films.

The series would have incorporated “the lore of several sequels but would have remixed that material in a manner similar to Fuller’s Hannibal, which interpolated the Thomas Harris novels for three seasons.”

It was explained that, “We had the mask, we had the sequels, we could do whatever we wanted. It had a good path to follow, which I really liked.”

Directors Vincent Natali AND My life is beautiful were in charge of directing the episodes. Kevin Williamson (Cry) was ready to write what has been “described as the show’s ‘Red Wedding’ – referring to the infamous game of Thrones episode – set entirely on a frozen Crystal Lake, with summer camp cabins trapped under snowdrifts.”

A new version of the Friday the 13th series is now in development, but it is under the direction of a different showrunner, Brad Caleb Kane, who serves as co-showrunner on the series. It prequel Welcome to Derryand previously worked on Warrior AND Vice President of Tokyo.