Stephen King teases fans with ‘Friday the 13th’ novel idea
King tweeted Sunday.The “first-person narrative” would follow Voohees’ “hellish fate” of having to be killed at Camp Crystal Lake over and over again, only to be resurrected each time, King wrote.The character was born in 1980, with director Sean S. Cunningham’s original “Friday the 13th” movie.It was followed by 11 sequels, most recently a 2009 remake by the same name, starring Jared Padalecki and Derek Mears as Voohees.That flick included part of Voohees’ origin story, but the 72-year-old novelist’s idea would be told exclusively from the iconic villain’s perspective.Horror fans shouldn’t cheer just yet.King followed up that “Just thinking about the legal thicket one would have to go through to get permissions makes my head ache.