Jason's Back?

Ryan Rotten is reporting that the next installment of FRIDAY THE 13TH is finally getting prepped for the big screen after years of development hell. The production staff over at Platinum Dunes have been trying to get this film made(unsuccessfully) since the feature film FREDDY VS. JASON, hit theaters in 2003. The film featuring both killers would go on to grab 82.6 million(114.9 mil worldwide) on a 30 million dollar budget.. In the process of this latest quagmire, they've had to ditch a few written drafts and a writer, Mark Wheaton(The Messengers). The new writers hired for the project are Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the same duo behind FvJ. While we don't know if the original director Jonathan Liebesman is still attached to the project, we do know now that Platinum Dunes is fast tracking this film to the big screen. They want to begin filming in early 2008 and have it fully shot before the impending strike in June.
Its strange that they are calling this a remake, as the plans thus far seem to be far from the original - this would be a film about only Jason Voorhees and not his mother, Pamela, who is the actual killer in the original film of the franchise. They played that up throughout the films, and even in FvJ.
Time will tell . . .