The 1980s were great for movie monsters. The 1990s, however, were a very different story. Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, especially, began to suffer from slasher burnout as fans began to lose interest. "Jason Goes to Hell" is considered a low mark for "Friday the 13th," and, while "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" is an interesting exploration of Krueger, its less than $20 million box office take wasn't exactly awe-inspiring for investors.
1993's "Jason Goes to Hell" ended on Jason's hockey mask being dragged to hell by Krueger's knife glove, but how do you make good on a crossover between two horror titans when neither of them is at their box office prime? The answer, as you might have guessed, is that you don't — at least not right away.
It took a decade after that to get "Freddy vs. Jason" up on the silver screen and it nearly didn't happen for many reasons. In fact, an attempted match up between the two characters first dates back to 1987 when Jason creator Sean Cunningham attempted to make it happen. Unfortunately, the characters were under different ownership at the time — Paramount owned Jason and New Line owned Freddy, according to "Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday The 13th" by Peter M. Bracke.
By the time New Line acquired "Friday the 13th" at the end of the '80s, Jason and Freddy became two ships constantly passing in the night. Freddy was in "New Nightmare" and then Jason was in "Jason's Dead."
Then there was the long road to "Jason X," the film which brought Jason to space — and which also cost the most money of any film in that franchise while also tanking at the box office (via The Numbers). "Jason X" didn't even see daylight until 2001.
This is all pre-cursor. Once "Freddy vs. Jason" was greenlit, it had even more challenges.
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