"Friday the 13th" Prequel Series "Crystal Lake" in Works

Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to a "Friday the 13th" prequel series, "Crystal Lake". 

The series is scripted by Bryan Fuller, who also serves as the showrunner and an executive producer. 

Victor Miller, who penned the original movie that spawned the franchise, will also executive produce along with Marc Toberoff, Rob Barsamian, and A24. A24 will also serve as the studio behind the series.

The exact plot details are kept under wraps, however, it is described as an “expanded prequel”.

Moreover, the title provides a hint as Crystal Lake was the placid, wooded New Jersey campground setting for the long-running slasher franchise, before the events of 1980's "Friday the 13th". 

The opening scenes of "Friday the 13th" depict the murder of two camp counselors at Cap Crystal Lake in 1958.

The movie eventually reveals the murderer was Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer), who was avenging her disabled son Jason, who drowned while the counselors were neglecting their duties. 

The rest of the movie followed the attempted reopening of the camp in the present day, which is foiled by Pamela's homicidal rampage.

It also featured Jason appearing in a shocking dream sequence at the end of the movie, rising from the depths of the lake to attack the movie's sole surviving protagonist, Alice (played by Adrienne King). 

Pamela Voorhees dies at the end of the movie, but "Friday the 13th Part II" reintroduced an adult Jason alive who stalked and murdered teenagers. 

After acquiring his iconic goalie mask in "Friday the 13th Part III", he became a modern horror icon, appearing in a string of sequels that saw him killed, resurrected, sent to Hell, turned into a cyborg, and even facing off another horror icon Freddy Krueger.

The franchise also spawned "Friday the 13th: The Series", a Canadian-produced horror TV series that ran from 1987 to 1990.

Despite the title and a common producer in Frank Mancuso Jr., however, the project had nothing to do with Jason and instead followed a team tracking down a series of cursed antiques.

The character didn't appear in a project since 2009's "Platinum Dunes Friday the 13th" reboot, due to a long-running legal dispute between Miller and Horror Inc., its producers, over who has ownership of the character. 

In 2021, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Miller's work was not legally work-for-hire, and thus Miller did own the rights to Jason.