10 Upcoming Movie Reboots That Are Doomed To Fail

5. It's Even More Cynical Than Usual - Friday The 13th

If you thought all the rights wrangling that means Spider-Man's only now going to meet the Avengers was a mess of legal contracts, you clearly haven't looked into Friday The 13th. The series about the most violent hockey fan ever was originally Paramount's, before getting sold to New Line Cinema (now part of Warner Bros.) after the eighth instalment. But, then, for the 2009 reboot, the mountain-logoed studio returned to aid distribution, leading to Jason Voorhees being a shared property, bringing all the problems you expect with it. That's why there's been such a delay getting a sequel to the tat-but-successful reboot - neither studio wanted to invest at the time, but neither did they want to step away and risk losing profits down the line. Enter, of all people, Christopher Nolan. Part of the distribution deal for Interstellar meant Warner Bros. (Nolan's usual studio) would relinquish their share in the Friday rights to Paramount (who had the original script for the sci-fi epic), so now a reboot (rumoured to be using cost-saving found-footage) is already greenlit. The whole Platinum Dunes school of remaking "classic" slashers as identikit as jump-scare/tame gore-fest mash-ups is a blight on the horror genre, but this whole thing sees it go a step deeper into the muck. Whereas with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the previous Friday The 13th and even A Nightmare On Elm Street there was the pretence of making something worthwhile, here's it's just a case of throwing the movie together "as fast as possible" to make a quick buck.