Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake hasn’t aired a single episode and it already has a physique rely. The sequence, set for streaming on Peacock by way of A24, will not have Bryan Fuller—the Hannibal creator who’s no stranger to leaving tasks early, together with American Gods and Star Trek: Discovery—guiding the summer-camp slaughter.
Fuller broke the information in a post shared to his Instagram and X accounts. “Adapting basic horror is one thing I’ve some expertise with. These exhibits require a imaginative and prescient that elevates and transforms, in addition to delivers what audiences have come to count on, which is an bold and dangerous endeavor. It requires folks to take the leap with me,” he wrote. “When it really works, as with Hannibal, the outcomes could be highly effective for the storytellers and the viewers. I couldn’t be extra happy with the work my co-showrunner Jim Hazard Grey and I have been in a position to accomplish with our good writing workers regardless of the challenges we confronted.”
Fuller continued, “For causes past our management, A24 has elected to go a special approach with the fabric. We hope the ultimate product can be one thing Friday the thirteenth followers all around the world will get pleasure from.”
A report in Variety quotes Fuller’s social media publish and characterizes the present’s author, government producer, and showrunner as having been “fired from the present as a consequence of inventive variations.” Nonetheless, the commerce notes there’s nonetheless hope for the sequence itself, citing an unnamed supply as confirming “the sequence order stays in place with hopes to line up a brand new showrunner as quickly as attainable.” Additionally, in distinction to a report final 12 months that Fuller had cast original Friday the 13th star Adrienne King in the series, Selection writes that “manufacturing had not begun on the sequence, nor had any casting taken place.”
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