Largely due to a decades-long legal dispute between Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller and director Sean Cunningham, we haven't seen a new Friday the 13th movie since 2009's criminally underrated reboot. To make matters worse, the 2017 multiplayer horror game Friday the 13th: The Game got ensnared in the lawsuit and was unceremoniously shut down at the end of 2024.
Thankfully, the legal battle has come to an end, and while I won't bore you with too much of the details, essentially, Miller owns the rights to the original screenplay while Cunningham holds the rights to the iconic Jason Voorhees character as we know him today, because only his child form was seen in the original 1980 Friday the 13th.
