Draft:Crystal Lake (TV series)

Crystal Lake is an upcoming American slasher television series developed by Bryan Fuller that is based on the Friday the 13th film franchise. It serves as a prequel to Friday the 13th (1980) and will be the second television series in the franchise after Friday the 13th: The Series.

Produced by A24, it is set to premiere on Peacock.

Cast

 * Adrienne King

Development and redirect
In October 2022, a Friday the 13th prequel series titled, Crystal Lake, was announced to be in development by A24 with Bryan Fuller as showrunner. It was to be executive produced by Fuller, Victor Miller, Marc Toberoff and Rob Barsamian.

The following month, Fuller revealed to Fangoria that they had complete creative freedom of the franchise under the streaming rights. He further explained, "As a streaming series, we have the rights to do everything underneath the Friday the 13th umbrella. The movie rights are a completely different thing. They are tied up at New Line and are super, super messy and probably won't be untangled anytime soon, but as far as us chickens in the television industry, uh, roost, we have access to anything and everything that Friday the 13th has done up until this point." One episode written by Fuller was described as an "an hour-long chase" on a frozen Crystal Lake.

In January 2023, Adrienne King was cast in an recurring undisclosed role. She previously portrayed Alice Hardy in the 1980 original film. Writing for the series was slated to begin in late January 2023, with Kevin Williamson set to write an episode for season one. Production was halted in May 2023 due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike. In May 2024, it was revealed that Fuller had been fired from the series after A24 elected to take the series in a different direction. Williamson also departed from the project. At one point in production, Charlize Theron was considered as the role of Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees. Filming was set to begin in August 2024, with a production budget of $10 million per episode for an eight episode season. Vincenzo Natali and Kimberly Peirce were set to direct episodes.

Nick Antosca was in talks to join as showrunner.