7 Friday The 13th Sequels That Almost Happened

Okay, so this one's technically a reboot but it goes down as another failed attempt to build on the 2009 movie's success.

After plans for a sequel burnt up in development hell, Paramount Pictures recruited The Last Witch Hunter director Breck Eisner to head up a new Friday the 13th revival which would serve as a fresh start for the franchise.

The movie was scheduled to begin shooting in March this year, at the same location where fan-favourite Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was filmed back in 1986, but its production was shut down the month before.

Paramount's top brass decided to take horror off the menu after Rings underwhelmed at the box office and failed to impress critics, so Jason's head ended up on the chopping block alongside the World War Z sequel as a result.

After going through several formats in early development, the Eisner reboot that was finally greenlit took on the form of an origin tale which would have delved deeper into the Voorhees family history. The role of young Jason was about to be cast when the axe fell, and word has it that the killer's father Elias would also have appeared.

This could potentially have been interesting since little is known about the Voorhees family prior to Jason's watery death, but it begs the question of whether he needs a backstory. He's a killing machine, not somebody the audience should ever relate to.

Eisner's Friday the 13th is as dead and buried as Jason was prior to the events of Part VI. In other words, all it will take is a bolt of Hollywood lightening to revive it.