Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired A24’s Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake for HBO Max across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, excluding the U.K. and Ireland.
The series is set to debut on HBO Max across the region later this year. Peacock has Crystal Lake for the U.S. and will be premiering the show stateside in October.
Peacock originally ordered the series back 2022, with Bryan Fuller initially attached as writer and showrunner. But creative differences led Fuller to leave the project in May 2024, saying that A24 “decided to go a different way with the material.”
Brad Caleb Kane (Max’s It: Welcome to Derry) is now credited as creator, writer and showrunner on the series.
Crystal Lake stars Emmy Award nominee Linda Cardellini (Dead to Me, Mad Man) as Pamela Voorhees, the mother of the notorious Friday the 13th killer Jason. The series picks up a year after Jason’s drowning death in the town lake. But the arrival of two strangers investigating her past sets off a series of events that prompts the residents of Crystal Lake to question who Pam Voorhees really is.
William Catlett co-stars as local police chief Levon Brooks. Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins and Gwendolyn Sundstrom co-star. Callum Vinson plays a young Jason Voorhees.
Kane is executive producing Crystal Lake together with A24 and an executive producing team that includes Marc Toberoff, Victor Miller, Robert M. Barsamian, Robert P. Barsamian, Stuart Manashil, Tyson Bidner, Michael Lennox and Roy Lee.
