[Trivial Psychic]

Here's an excerpt from the producer of the new Friday series Long Mitchell on what they are shooting for...

“I don’t think we really wanted to do a show about a guy with a machete chasing girls in tube tops. We couldn’t do that on a weekly basis… So what ends up happening is, a cop comes into town, looking for his brother. He realizes his brother was there searching into the past murders, and realizes that his personal story is tied into Jason’s personal story.

What we’re going to do is basically acknowledge that the people came to this town after these killings happened, and they made all these movies. And now the town has a stigma. Our show is, ‘Here’s the true story. Here’s the real story of Jason.’ It’s been taken and exploited. So we have the young crowd who doesn’t know who he is except for what they’ve seen in the movies. The older crowd is afraid of him. We have a lot of people who have scars from him. The underlying thematic of the whole thing is that Jason is a monster in this town. He openly wears a mask. But everybody in this town wears a mask. Underneath those is the monster.”

Going off of those comments, it kinda has that feel that is the basis for the recent reboot/remake of "The Town That Dreaded Sundown", where the crimes from the Friday movies actually happened, movies were made to document, and the murders start up again by either a copycat, or the actual Jason Voorhees, who has since returned from the grave. I've repeatedly read on site after site how they want this Jason to still be the hulking maniac, while rooted in reality (similar to what the reboot shot for...) so hopefully they'll realize that a strapping, handsome, Dexter-type 6 footer with a six pack is not the way to go and is more liable to alienate fans than it is to draw them in.

Whether or not the show could last more than a season, I'm unsure, but it still could make for an entertaining 13-24 episodes if done right.

Jared Padalecki did appear in the Friday reboot as Clay, while Jensen Ackles appeared in the reboot/remake of My Bloody Valentine, which both came out in theaters a week apart from each other in 2009.