On Friday, November 13, 2026, Deadline reported on their website that iconic horror character Jason Voorhees is grabbing his machete and putting the hockey mask back on, with filmmaker Steve Miner returning to direct the “13th” entry of the Friday the 13th franchise. The film marks the first movie to be produced for the series in nearly two decades. The news is revealed on the heels of the Peacock/A24 streaming series Crystal Lake and a Mike P. Nelson short film titled Sweet Revenge, made to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Jason Universe.

According to the report, Steve Miner first put the machete in Jason’s hands when he directed Friday the 13th Part II and went on to introduce the iconic hockey mask in Friday the 13th Part III. The 2027 film is being shot from a script by David Fliegel. Returning to the franchise’s independent roots, Friday the 13th Part XIII is produced and financed by the Barsamian family, which controls the franchise through their company Horror Inc. This movie is the first Friday the 13th film since a 2009 reboot from Warner Bros. saw some success but never generated additional productions.

CatchLight Studios – the company behind horror films such as Heretic and Umma – has been named as Horror Inc.’s production partner, with Cineverse securing all North America distribution rights.

The Friday the 13th franchise launched with the namesake 1980 indie slasher, made for $550,000 and acquired by Paramount in a bidding war. The original film centers on a group of counselors at Camp Crystal Lake as they prepare to reopen the summer camp. The group’s plans are disrupted when they are stalked and viscously murdered by an unseen assailant, while the memory of a young boy who drowned at the summer camp years earlier hangs over the grounds. The film was shot primarily at an actual New Jersey summer camp with Sean S. Cunningham in the director’s chair and released theatrically on May 9, 1980, generating a durable, low-budget sequel machine, with Warner Bros. and its genre arm New Line releasing some of its installments.

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