There are few more iconic horror characters than Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, a series starting with Sean Cunningham's classic 1980 slasher film. The hockey mask-wearing killer from Camp Crystal Lake has been featured in tons of films and his own asymmetrical horror game, but author Stephen King has an idea for how Jason could star in a particularly striking novel.
King posted a Tweet Sunday that said the "best novel idea I never wrote" was a first-person narrative that explores the existential dread of the killer as he is repeatedly defeated and destroyed. The novel, which would have been named "I JASON" in obvious homage to Isaac Asimov's I, Robot and the 2004 film adaptation of the same name, sounds like it could be a fun direction to take the long-running Friday the 13th franchise.
Who could expect any less from an icon like Stephen King, whose prolific catalog of books and short stories has led to countless critically-acclaimed adaptations including 1990's Misery, 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, and recently the two-part movie adaptation of It. One of his most infamous books, The Shining, was also made into an opera well after Stanley Kubrick's film released the same year as Friday the 13th.
While it's unlikely this Stephen King take on Friday the 13th will come to fruition, Jason Voorhees could have more life in him yet. The asymmetrical horror game Dead by Daylight has expressed interest in adding Jason as a Killer alongside licensed characters such as Halloween's Michael Myers and Silent Hill's Pyramid Head.