It became less bloody, but it stayed essentially the same story all the way through.” ( Fangoria) We started off writing what was probably the bloodiest film ever made, and that was because Bob Shaye at New Line told us to make it as violent as possible. The script definitely wound up less gory as we went along. But the trick was making that happen without violating established mythologies and backstories of the characters. “We wanted the fights to take place in the real world and in the dream world. “There were things we wanted in the story,” explained Swift. We wanted to see these characters restored to their former glory.” (“Genesis: Development Hell” and Fangoria) We wanted to take Freddy and Jason back to their roots. We wanted to maintain what had been created originally for these characters. We asked ourselves what that meant-why was Freddy grabbing the mask? A lot of the stories had kind of crisscrossed their backstories. We started imagining where the story should go from the point where Freddy grabs Jason’s mask. They just said, ‘Come in with what you guys think the movie should be,’ and we did. “New Line never gave us any marching orders. And the fans will love you for it,” remembered Damian Shannon of their pitch to New Line Cinema. We wanted to take both histories of both characters, as they were in the movies, and start from there.” (“Genesis: Development Hell”) We didn’t really change the histories of the characters. “I knew it had been in development for ten years, so I think we just came at it a little bit differently than the rest of the other. “We worked on another project for New Line and they brought us in to pitch our take ,” recalled Mark Swift. Newcomers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift proposed a premise that New Line could finally get behind. Many of Hollywood’s elite screenwriters took a stab at writing a script, but none of them were able to capture what New Line was looking for.

New Line Cinema tried on multiple occasions to develop the film but could not find a concept that worked. Jason languished in development for almost ten years. All of these scripts are available in PDF format.įreddy vs. Several scripts are available here: the final draft by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, and rejected drafts submitted by various screenwriters. However, Freddy quickly loses control of the unstoppable Jason, which results in the two horror icons battling to the death in Freddy vs. A powerless Freddy Krueger manipulates behemoth Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th series) to carry on gruesome killings in Freddy’s hometown of Springwood.

Freddy vs jason movie still