Paramount Pictures‘ forthcoming animated feature based on the comic Freddy the 13th has scored an appropriate release date.
The studio announced Thursday that it will release the untitled animated family-horror-comedy movie from director Dan Trachtenberg on Oct. 13, 2028 — which, naturally, is a Friday. The Paramount Animation film adapts Yehudi Mercado’s comic Freddy the 13th, with Mercado tapped to co-direct.
Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) and Ben Rosenblatt serve as producers for the film that centers on a family vacation that takes a bad turn when lovable Uncle Freddy accidentally kills the Boogeyman and adopts his powers.
The project was first announced last month during the Annecy International Film Festival, where Paramount touted the movie as delivering “wholesome PG-rated scares and laughs to the whole family.”
After the feature was announced, Mercado took to Instagram to celebrate getting to work with Trachtenberg and the studio. “I’m incredibly excited to have found a team crazy enough to want to make an animated horror-comedy for the whole family,” he wrote at the time. “Most of all, I’m grateful I never gave up on my dreams. Thanks, Paramount Animation! Let’s get spooky!”
Trachtenberg, who recently signed a first-look directing and producing deal with Paramount, has experience with feature animation. He helmed Predator: Killer of Killers, which launched on Hulu last summer and marked the first animated title in the Predator franchise.
The filmmaker is also known for directing two other movies in the Predator series: 2022’s Prey and last year’s Predator: Badlands, with the latter starring Elle Fanning. His television work includes Black Mirror, The Boys and The Lost Symbol.
