A24 dumps Bryan Fuller’s Friday The 13th TV show

It’s been several years now since Pushing Daisies and Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller last produced a full season of TV, with his most recent projects being an executive producer role on Sam Wineman’s Netflix docuseries Queer For Fear—and then a blistering denunciation of Wineman, after the latter sued him for sexual harassment in 2023. (Legal action which has gone quiet since October 2023, when several mutual colleagues came forward supporting Fuller’s version of events.) Fuller’s history over the last near-decade, then, has mostly been about projects he didn’t make—his departure from American Gods after its first season, his stepping back from his various roles in the Star Trek universe, dropping out of an Amazing Stories reboot and an incarnation of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, etc.

We can now add one more project to the heap: Fuller’s TV version of Friday The 13th, which, per Deadline, has now been, well, Bryan Fuller-ed. (Sorry: At some point, you either die a hero or live long enough to become a verb.) Fuller posted the news of his departure from the project on social media today, reporting that A24, which was producing the show with Peacock, has, “for reasons beyond our control… elected to go a different way with the material.” While thanking his co-showrunner on the project, Jim Danger Gray, Fuller threw a bit of mild shade at someone in the studios, noting that adapting classic horror material for modern audiences is “an ambitious and risky endeavor. It requires people to take the leap with me.”

Peacock and A24 will now instead be taking the leap to another showrunning team, apparently; it’s not clear if they’ll be keeping any of the concept Fuller and Gray developed (which was titled Crystal Lake); the prequel series came into existence shortly after the resolution of a long-running legal battle between the creators of the original film freed up the rights.