The FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise is currently bogged down in a lawsuit, with the original film's director/producer Sean S. Cunningham and screenwriter Victor Miller fighting over the copyright to that movie. Thanks to this lawsuit, work on all licensed merchadise (including the video game and action figures) has had to stop, and no new FRIDAY THE 13TH movies can be made until the issue is resolved. It's probably going to be a couple more years before that happens.
So here sits JASON LIVES: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI writer/director Tom McLoughlin with a freshly written sequel script that he can't even attempt to get made.
During an interview on a podcast called The Pod and the Pendulum, hosted by Mike Snoonian and Jerry Smith, McLoughlin mentioned:
For the last thirty-three years I have been asked so many times, will I do another (FRIDAY THE 13TH movie). I kept saying for years, 'Well, if I can come up with another idea that's fresh and I can bring something else to it, I'll do it.' And lo and behold, I finally came up with the formula of what I wanted to do with things about six months ago, and wrote the screenplay. Of course, now I'm stopped dead in my tracks with the lawsuit. So it's like I can't even show it to the studios or anybody. So it's just come to a screeching halt. But that's the irony, it took that long for me to come up with something that I went, 'You know what? I would want to see this movie, as a horror fan and a Jason fan.' I didn't just want to do another one, I wanted to do something unique with it, but still staying within the structure and still staying within the parameters of what a FRIDAY THE 13TH is."
I love JASON LIVES, it's the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie I saw and the film that got me into the horror genre, so I am really curious to know what goes on in this new FRIDAY THE 13TH script McLoughlin has written.
The way things are going with the franchise, chances are that we'll never know what McLoughlin would like to do with another sequel, and that's a shame.