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<p>The CW has decided not to pursue its Friday the 13th TV show.</p>
<p>Today at the Television Critics Association summer tour, president Mark Pedowitz confirmed that the network sees no future for the show at The CW because it is &quot;not sustainable.&quot; In 2015, The CW picked up the pilot from writers Steve Mitchell and Craig Van Sickles, the pair that created the &#8217;90s NBC series <em>The Pretender</em>.</p>
<p>Their iteration of Friday the 13th was apparently going to be a &quot;sophisticated horror/crime thriller,&quot; <a href="http://ift.tt/2bkAR2e">according to Collider</a>, which attended the TCA event today. Reports suggested the show would have followed a detective&#8217;s longtime search for his missing brother, in a story that would have seen Jason Voorhees return to Crystal Lake to murder people yet again.</p>
<p>&quot;We didn&#8217;t believe it was a sustainable script or a sustainable series,&quot; Pedowitz said. &quot;It was a very good pilot, but not a sustainable series.&quot;</p>
<p>Although The CW is not pursuing the project any longer, Pedwoitz said Mitchell and Van Sickles, the writers, are free to shop it to other networks once the network&#8217;s exclusivity deal ends in January 2017.</p>
<p>Friday the 13th fans are getting a new movie from Paramount, which will be directed by <em>The Last Witch Hunter</em>&#8216;s Breck Eisner, it was announced this week. This movie is being written by <em>Prisoners </em>scribe Aaron Guzikowski and will focus on Jason&#8217;s origin story. A release date has not been announced.</p>
<p>Additionally, a new <a href="http://ift.tt/1MP56UF">Friday the 13th video game</a> is in the works for <a href="http://ift.tt/1gvajmS">Xbox One</a>, <a href="http://ift.tt/1lXIW8W">PS4</a>, and<a href="http://ift.tt/1e8dJIN"> PC</a>.</p>
<p><em>Source: <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://ift.tt/2aEJOCJ">GameSpot</a></em></div>
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