Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake hasn’t aired a single episode and it already has a physique rely. The collection, set for streaming on Peacock by means of A24, will now not have Bryan Fuller—the Hannibal creator who’s no stranger to leaving tasks early, together with American Gods and Star Trek: Discovery—guiding the summer-camp slaughter.
Fuller broke the information in a post shared to his Instagram and X accounts. “Adapting basic horror is one thing I’ve some expertise with. These reveals require a imaginative and prescient that elevates and transforms, in addition to delivers what audiences have come to anticipate, which is an formidable and dangerous endeavor. It requires folks to take the leap with me,” he wrote. “When it really works, as with Hannibal, the outcomes might be highly effective for the storytellers and the viewers. I couldn’t be extra pleased with the work my co-showrunner Jim Hazard Grey and I have been in a position to accomplish with our sensible writing workers regardless of the challenges we confronted.”
Fuller continued, “For causes past our management, A24 has elected to go a unique method with the fabric. We hope the ultimate product can be one thing Friday the thirteenth followers everywhere in the world will get pleasure from.”
A report in Variety quotes Fuller’s social media submit and characterizes the present’s author, government producer, and showrunner as having been “fired from the present attributable to inventive variations.” Nonetheless, the commerce notes there’s nonetheless hope for the collection itself, citing an unnamed supply as confirming “the collection order stays in place with hopes to line up a brand new showrunner as quickly as doable.” Additionally, in distinction to a report final 12 months that Fuller had cast original Friday the 13th star Adrienne King in the series, Selection writes that “manufacturing had not begun on the collection, nor had any casting taken place.”
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