{"id":2212,"date":"2025-06-21T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2212\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:26:11","slug":"crystal-lake-begins-filming-under-the-cheeky-title-mamas-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2212\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Crystal Lake&#8217; Begins Filming Under the Cheeky Title &#8216;Mama&#8217;s Boy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showrunner <strong>Brad Caleb Kane<\/strong> has announced today that filming is now officially underway on \u201c<strong>Crystal Lake<\/strong>,\u201d the upcoming <strong>Friday the 13th<\/strong> television series from <strong>Peacock<\/strong> and<strong> A24<\/strong> that will serve as an expanded prequel to the legendary slasher franchise. The series, it\u2019s amusing to note, is shooting under the faux title \u201c<strong>Mama\u2019s Boy<\/strong>,\u201d which seems only fitting!<\/p>\n<p>Brad Caleb Kane captions a behind the scenes photo shared out on his Instagram page this afternoon (below), \u201cProduction Day 1. It\u2019s real, folks.\u201d Stay tuned for more updates.<\/p>\n<p>The episode currently in production is directed by <strong>Michael Lennox<\/strong> (\u201cDerry Girls\u201d), with the slate listing<strong> Maceo Bishop<\/strong> (\u201cThe Curse,\u201d \u201cThe Watcher\u201d) as the cinematographer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linda Cardellini <\/strong>stars in \u201cCrystal Lake\u201d as Mrs. Voorhees, who was of course the killer in the original Friday the 13th (1980). She\u2019s joined by\u00a0<strong>William Catlett<\/strong>\u00a0(Abigail), <strong>Cameron Scoggins<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cNashville\u201d),\u00a0<strong>Devin Kessler<\/strong> (\u201cGodfather of Harlem\u201d), and<strong> Gwendolyn Sundstrom<\/strong>. Scoggins will play Dorf, the police officer portrayed by\u00a0Ron Millkie in the original classic!<\/p>\n<p>Linda Cardellini\u2019s Pamela Voorhees is being described as \u201ca mother who had given up a singing career to raise a special needs child and takes a dark turn when she loses her son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eight-episode series is set to be directed by\u00a0<strong>Michael Lennox<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cDerry Girls\u201d),\u00a0<strong>Celine Held<\/strong>\u00a0&amp;<strong>\u00a0Logan George<\/strong>\u00a0(Caddo Lake), and\u00a0<strong>Quyen Tran<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cThe Pitt\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The series will notably bring the Friday the 13th\u00a0franchise back to life after 16 years of Jason Voorhees lying dormant at the bottom of the lake due to messy legal issues over the rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLILZKguxKX\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane has announced today that filming is now officially underway on \u201cCrystal Lake,\u201d the upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3028,3029,3030,171,3031,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-2212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-brad-caleb-kane","10":"tag-crystal-lake","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-friday-the-13th","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114721114198968337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}