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Stephen King Says He Wanted to Do a First-Person Novel About Jason Voorhees
Stephen King never touched the Friday the 13th franchise in an official capacity, but he has always wanted to write a Jason Voorhees novel. King posted to Twitter on Monday to reveal that the “best novel idea [he] never wrote” was I, Jason, a book from Jason’s perspective as he is killed repeatedly (from film to film) at Crystal Lake.
Any such novel, of course, would require a host of legal sign-offs, which King acknowledged. He suggested that if anyone could do such an idea justice, it could be Blumhouse in a film version.
The Friday the 13th franchise is in a complicated legal situation right now, as original director Sean Cunningham has been in a fight with screenwriter Victor Miller over the rights to the film. A decision was expected sometime this year, though that was before COVID-19 threw pretty much everything out of whack.
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. What a hellish, existential fate!
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 15, 2020
Just thinking about the legal thicket one would have to go through to get permissions makes my head ache. And my heart, that too. But gosh, shouldn't someone tell Jason's side of the story?
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 15, 2020
Blumhouse could do it as a movie.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 15, 2020