Corey Feldman is not a fan of the Friday the 13th reboot, but he’s still keeping hope alive for returning as Tommy Jarvis in a new legacy sequel. In Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter, a young Feldman starred as the first actor to play franchise hero Tommy Jarvis, a role that went to different actors in the sequels.
As an adult, Feldman has long wanted to revisit the role for a new Friday the 13th film, but his idea for a Tommy vs. Jason movie never got off the ground.
In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Feldman addressed the status of the Friday the 13th series. When discussing the possibility of doing new legacy sequels to his classic movies, the former child star said that Tommy vs. Jason is the project he’d be interested in above all else. As told in the interview, Feldman reiterates that Tommy vs. Jason needs to be made while lamenting how unimpressed he was with the reboot that came out in 2009.
From the interview:
I think if we do any reboots, the reboot should be the Tommy vs. Jason reboot… Let’s just hope they don’t make it like they did the last one, because that was terrible. Where they messed up is they had been meeting with me about doing Tommy vs. Jason, like H20 style. That was the plan. And they screwed me – not because they were screwing me, just because they were deciding to go in a different direction and inadvertently I got screwed. But, the point being, they didn’t go that route and they went and did this awful atrocity of a reboot instead, and look what you got.
The former Tommy Jarvis actor also said he even met with the reboot studio about doing Tommy vs. Jason before the decision was made to reboot the movie instead. He points to the success of the Halloween reboot in 2018 with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as proof that the next Friday the 13th film needs to bring back its franchise hero as well with a new legacy sequel.
What they should do is revamp the idea of bringing Tommy back 30 years later to go up against his nemesis the same way they did with Jamie Lee Curtis and the Halloween reboot. Not to talk badly about Platinum Dunes, but I had met with them prior to making that movie and they had promised me that they were going to use me and bring Tommy Jarvis back in the version that they had originally planned to make, and then that all got scratched for that ridiculous whatever-it-was.
Corey Feldman also brings up another pitch he’d heard about all of the Friday the 13th survivors teaming up to take on Jason Voorhees Avengers-style, but he still feels that the best route for the series moving forward is to create the Tommy vs. Jason legacy sequel that would serve as a direct tie-in to The Final Chapter, one of the franchise’s most popular installments.
There’s been the idea that every survivor from every Jason movie should get together and have Tommy guide them through this one last adventure against Jason. That was an idea that I had been told a while back, which is okay. I think even that’s a little bit hokey. I don’t think you need all that. Me and the original writer of The Final Chapter, Barney Cohen, had gotten together and fleshed out a treatment for Tommy vs. Jason and we were pitching it to Paramount and New Line about 6-7 years ago, but it just never went forward because of all the tieup and all the legal litigation stuff going on.
For now, we’ll just have to wait for an end to the Friday the 13th legal battle to be officially announced before we can get too excited about the next movie getting made. Whether it’s Corey Feldman in Tommy vs. Jason or another reboot, fans have been dying for years to see Jason Voorhees back on the big screen. You can check out the full interview with Feldman below, via MovieWeb.
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