Summary
- Friday the 13th screenwriters shared an unmade sequel script that included a shocking kill scene involving Jason Voorhees and a zipline rider named Val.
- The scene depicts Val being cut in half by Jason, with her lower half flying. The writers compare Jason’s swing to Bryce Harper’s in a World Series game.
- The script also included an extended opening sequence set in winter, followed by the reopening of the summer camp. Shannon and Swift released additional pages featuring a flashback sequence with a young Jason and both of his parents.
Jason Voorhees killing a zipline rider is certainly a novel idea. And if the Friday the 13th screenwriters had their disgustingly creative way, such a jaw-dropping sequence would have opened their sequel to the reboot. Damian Shannon and Mark Swift penned the 2009 reimagining of Sean S. Cunningham’s original Friday the 13th (1980), and their follow-up would have found a brand-new character, Val, being cut in half by the hockey-masked maniac.
After Val zooms across the zipline, she notices the world’s most dangerous mommy’s boy waiting for her at the end of the ride. Remember how the Master Control Program constantly said, “end of line,” in Tron? Well, this never-before-seen death brings a whole new meaning to those three little words. And as Shannon and Swift describe it in their unmade sequel’s screenplay, Jason does his best impression of Bryce Harper at the plate. The writers wrote:
He [Jason] steps toward her and swings through her mid-section like he’s going for the f—ing fences in the World Series — cutting her in half at the waist — sending her lower half flying…
Check out the unmade sequel script’s two-page opening sequence in its entirety below, which Shannon and Swift penned to continue their 2009 Friday the 13th storyline (per X, formerly Twitter):
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Jason Kills Zipline Rider in Sequel Script
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Friday the 13th screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift took to X, formerly Twitter, on October 12 and conducted a poll in which 81.6% of online users voted to see a kill scene from the unmade sequel to the 2009 horror flick. On Friday, October 13, Shannon posted the first two pages of the script, and he tagged the actor who played the Crystal Lake killer in the remake, Derek Mears. Shannon and Swift posted on their official X account:
“You asked for it, you got it. Here is a kill from our unmade sequel to Friday the 13th 2009. The script had an extended opening sequence again, this time in winter, then the rest of the movie is the reopening of the summer camp. I still want to see @DerekMears do this one lol”
Shannon and his writing partner, Swift, certainly have a way with words. And judging from the brutality and graphic nature of the first two pages of their sequel screenplay, Val’s zipline incident could have easily made Friday the 13th’s most memorable deaths. Shannon and Swift also released additional pages which reveal a flashback sequence with a very young Jason and both of his parents, Pamela and Elias. Fans can check out those two pages below, courtesy of Shannon and Swift’s X account:
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