By modern Hollywood standards, movement on Freddy vs. Jason was glacial, as both franchises jockeyed for relevance in a horror marketplace.
, though New Line Cinema didn’t want to pay the licensing fees to get the character, so that was scrapped early on. It’s clear that Hollywood had ideas, but for one reason another, they couldn’t execute, leavingTo get to the why of that fact, we need to go way back in time to 1986. Both franchises were relatively young then, especially, Paramount head Frank Mancuso Jr.
All of which is to say that, by modern Hollywood standards, at a time when tentpoles often get a release date before they get a script, movement onwas dauntingly glacial, as both franchises jockeyed for continued relevance in a horror marketplace that underwent a lot of changes in the 1990s.
Then there’s the problem of marshaling the resources of individual franchises together into something new. The various other potential crossovers that were floated in the slasher world often fell victim to simple disinterest from one or more major party.
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