Discontinued work on TV version Friday the 13th
The CW has given up on the idea to present a new take on the classics in a television format. According to Entertainment Weekly, Channel President Mark Pedowitz announced at the TV Critics Association's summer meeting that he will stop working on the Friday the 13th horror series and the adaptation of Little Women by Louise May Alcott. About the series tentatively titled Crystal Lake Chronicles, which would have been the first TV show in the famed Friday the 13th franchise, Pedowitz said: “We've had better pilots. The bottom line is that we realized we had there are more interesting projects worth betting on and we decided to cancel the "Crystal Lake Chronicles." The script for the pilot was very good, it was darker, than we originally planned, but we believed that the series would have stability, so to speak ... I repeat, the pilot turned out well, but the series itself would not last long. " As for the second television project, which was described as a "hyper-stylized, dark adaptation" the 1868 novel, in which the main characters "unite to survive on the streets of Philadelphia," it was closed at the script stage. "Nothing worked with the script. It happens. We didn't like it and we decided to stop trying to rewrite it," explained Pedovitz. described as a "hyper-stylized, dark adaptation" of an 1868 novel in which the protagonists "band together to survive on the streets of Philadelphia," it was closed during the script stage. "The script didn't work. That happens. We didn't like it, and we decided to stop trying to rewrite it, "explained Pedovitz.described as a "hyper-stylized, dark adaptation" of an 1868 novel in which the protagonists "band together to survive on the streets of Philadelphia," it was closed during the script stage. "The script didn't work out. That happens. We didn't like it, and we decided to stop trying to rewrite it, "explained Pedovitz.The Topic of Article: Discontinued work on TV version Friday the 13th. |
