Stephen King has revealed that he once wanted to write a book from the perspective of Jason Voorhees, the hockey-masked murderer from the Friday the 13th franchise.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, the legendary storyteller confessed that he had considered writing “Jason’s side of the story” as a first-person narrative from the fictional character’s point of view, though he noted that the story is unlikely to ever now hit the shelves.
King suggested that the table-turning tale, called “I, JASON,” would see the titular character subjected to a “hellish fate” of perpetual death at Camp Crystal Lake, the summer camp that Jason stalked in the Friday the 13th film series.
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“The best novel idea I never wrote (and probably never will) is I JASON, the first-person narrative of Jason Voohees, and his hellish fate: killed over and over again at Camp Crystal Lake,” King tweeted. “What a hellish, existential fate!”
“Just thinking about the legal thicket one would have to go through to get permissions makes my head ache,” King explained in a follow-up tweet. “And my heart, that too. But gosh, shouldn’t someone tell Jason’s side of the story?”
“Blumhouse could do it as a movie,” he wrote as a final suggestion.
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The first movie in the Friday the 13th franchise was released in 1980 and told the story of a group of counsellor’s at Camp Crystal Lake, who are continuously eliminated by an unknown assailant while attempting to re-open the abandoned site.
The most recent film to be released in the slasher series was 2009’s Jason reboot, also called Friday the 13th, starring Jared Padalecki and Derek Mears, who played Jason, the motivated killer with speed, strength, vision and a revenge streak that runs blackheart-deep.
In our review of the film, we said, “fans of these movies should rejoice at this treatment of their hallowed franchise, and should be psyched to discover that this film leaves the possibility of a sequel wide open. Movies that take on a legacy are always hit-or-miss, but this Friday the 13th — ahem — kills.”
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
Source: IGN.com Stephen King Wanted to Write a Book About Jason Voorhees