It all started before he was the apple of his mother’s eye, or least that is the story Jason Lives director Tom McLoughlin would like to tell. By now, most people know the fan-favorite Friday the 13th franchise has been tied up in a courtroom battle over rights issues with no real satisfactory resolution for another sequel. So how can McLoughlin transfer his dream story of the murderous Pamela Voorhees from paper to film without stepping on any of those tangled franchise rights?

McLoughlin recently shared with Bloody Disgusting that he and writing partner James Sweet have enough material to create a limited series about Pamela Voorhees and a young Jason. Furthermore, he has an entire screenplay put together for a Friday project titled Diary of Pamela Voorhees.

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Diary of Pamela Voorhees is described as:

A story that takes place in Post-World War 2 middle America. People are uncertain, afraid of the unknown, and untrusting. This is the world Mrs. Voorhees and Jason must face. On the night of June 13, 1946, an abused 16-year-old Pamela gives birth to a facially disfigured, mentally challenged, boy she names Jason. Over the next ten years we see the painful life this shunned single mother must survive to raise and protect Jason who most of all these people treat as a freak. Her psychopathic mind turns darker, then vengeful as she brutally kills any detractor of her son They then move on, Pamela fantasizing on finding some place that’s truly theirs.

Both the film and limited series conclude with their arrival at Camp Crystal Lake on May 19, 1956, and the rest is horror fandom history. McLoughlin explained that “Pamela’s Diary” gives a deeper insight into how she feels, shedding light on her psychopathic and sociopathic thoughts and plans. He also wanted to approach it as if it were a true story with no supernatural aspects. McLoughlin added that there is also a deeply disturbing and creepy aspect of seeing Jason as a child watching and maybe learning from his mother’s brutal murders. In fact, the prequel might explain Jason’s mentality and taste for killing sprees ever since his mother warned him:

“If we don’t kill them, Jason they’ll keep hurting more people like us. There’s no God who will punish them. Only us, Jason.”

With advice like that, no wonder Jason can’t put the machete down.