After 17 years, Friday the 13th fans finally have their first new piece of live-action content with the prequel series Crystal Lake. From showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, the series explores the years leading to the events of the original 1980 movie, with Linda Cardellini playing Pamela Voorhees on her path to becoming a murderer.
The first season is now streaming in full on Peacock, and Kane opened up about his plans for potential future seasons.
Speaking with Deadline, Kane explained his interest in a story where the focus is on a town full of eccentric characters as opposed to one specific narrative.
“This is a world that I return to over and over and over again,” the showrunner explained. “I return to these movies, we all do, somehow. They became iconic for a reason. But there’s a lot we don’t know about the town. We meet these really colorful characters in the first movie, we meet Trudy and Officer Dorff and so-called Crazy Ralph, even though he turns out to have a point. But we don’t see that much of them ultimately. Some are dispatched, some are just there for momentary common comic relief.”
Kane continued, “And, you know, with a show like this, we have the opportunity to open it up and spend a little more time with them. Everybody loves, a small town show, and within the world of Friday the 13th, that just becomes more amplified and interesting.”
This first season charted a course for what was to come in the original movie, though the season finale doesn’t directly lead into the events of the film. With a Season 2, Kane revealed that his plans would run up much closer to that timeline, though would still take a bit longer to overlap.
“I do have ideas for Season 2 in mind,” the showrunner pointed out. “Obviously, it’s not just Pam’s story, it’s Crystal Lake, so you have all of the peripheral characters who are interesting to me … You have the opportunity for this to be more of a Twin Peaks-y kind of vibe, with Ralph and with Dorff and Trudy and all of those characters. There’s a lot more to get into with them. But obviously, the nexus is always gonna be Pam and Jason, and their story.”
As far as the overlap between the TV show and the movie, Kane confirmed, “It wouldn’t happen in a second season … There’s more story to tell, for the residents of Crystal Lake and to the extent that Linda wants to continue the journey with us, with Pam. So, we’ll see.”
All eight episodes of Crystal Lake are now streaming on Peacock.
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