The CW won't be heading to Camp Crystal Lake after all, as it has been confirmed that the previously in-development Friday the 13th series is no longer moving forward at the network.

Initially in development at The CW since last year, the Friday the 13th TV series, tentatively titled Crystal Lake Chronicles, was discussed at the Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation in Beverly Hills. According to EW, here's what CW president Mark Pedowitz had to say about the series, which showed promise with its pilot but was not viewed as their best option for a longterm show:

“The bottom line is we felt we had stronger things to go with, and we didn’t go forward with it. It was well-written, it was darker than we wanted it to be, and we didn’t believe it had sustainability … We didn’t believe that it was a sustainable script, a sustainable series. It was a very good pilot, but not a sustainable series.”

Steve Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle (co-creators of the late 1990s series The Pretender) were at one point spearheading the creation of the Friday the 13th TV series, which was described as a "sophisticated, horror/crime thriller." Original Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham was even set to executive produce the project. Last year, the CW had also been developing a new Tales From the Darkside series before passing on the show in May of 2015.

While viewers won't see Jason Voorhees on the small screen anytime soon, the latest big screen installment is heating up once again, with Breck Eisner (The Crazies remake, The Last Witch Hunter) in talks to helm the 13th Friday the 13th film from a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski’s (Prisoners). A Platinum Dunes picture, the new Friday the 13th movie is scheduled to come out on January 13th, 2017. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the latest Crystal Lake news.

Source: EW
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