Sylvia finds his calling in latest Friday the 13th movie

After showing up as a sloppy, hairy 315-pound beast for his last fight, Tim Sylvia is a natural to be cast as a horror film monster. Fighters.com is reporting that he got a gig in the latest Friday the 13th movie. Yes, we're serious.

Sylvia has been a blogosphere punchline since he was knocked out in 10 seconds by 48-year-old Ray Mercer. He's a favorite of photoshoppers. We can't even imagine what comes now when MMA fans find out Sylvia is the latest Jason Vorhees.

Sylvia does have a return fight in less than three weeks on September 18 at Adrenaline MMA 4 in Iowa. The movie is filming in the Boston area. Here's hoping that filming is taking just a few hours a day and he's actually training for his fight against Jason Riley. Fighters.com says Sylvia is working with Boston-based trainer Mark DellaGrotte.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cag...urn=mma,187398

How would this be a remake if he would be in the sequel to the rebooted franchise?

I asked Derek Mears (the guy who played Jason in the reboot) and he said that he had not heard anything about this. Wouldn't make much sense, as I got the feeling that they liked how Mears protrayed Jason, and I can't imgine that he was contracted for only one film.

added: this CL ad was pointed out over on the F13 fn boards

http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/tlg/1327945339.html

Boston Film Productions in association with Mood Swing Films is currently casting for the SAG Ultra-low budget feature "OxyMorons". A very Dark Horror film about the effects of Oxycontin on a family, town and it's inhabitants. After all the rumors surrounding the death of Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger from this particular drug, the mix of local talent, and RED camera photography, this film is sure to be the next Trainspotting or Kids. We are reaching out to the local community for any help we can get. We currently have many TV and radio celebrities from the Boston area contracted into this film as well as former UFC champion Tim 'The Maine-iac" Sylvia. This will be a real Hollywood style production without the attitude, and with a ton of familiar faces. Take a break from "extra work", and get yourself on a low budget production! All cast and crew will receive IMDB credit as well as catered meals, craft service, etc. Each day a 100$ gift certificate to Ristorante Damiano will be award to one of the extra from a random drawing. We are still casting Roles and background talent, as well as crew, for the following dates below. You do not need to be available everyday, but please write in subject line what dates you are available for with headshot and resume to [email protected]

Yep, not happening. Mears posted on his FB that this was a rumor.

So I guess we won't have a Jason that pins his victims to the floor, does leg locks, or crack their bones. Damn.

j/k

oh that's too bad I was hoping they could redo this famous death, uncensored this go around

^^
Those were the good years of horror cinema.

I was pretty dissapointed in the first one. I am not exactly the horror buff i used to be but it was low budget in my opinion.

truth or rummor?
Anyway,I'm expecting its coming

It's dead:

Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller has confirmed that a sequel to last year's remake of "Friday the 13th" has essentially been canned.

Asked about its status, Fuller mentioned on his Twitter account that the project "is dead - not happening" and later told Bloody Disgusting that "right now there is no movement on Friday 13th: Part 2".

The comments are a complete reversal from those a year ago after the reboot scored a healthy $91 million worldwide and Dunes' reps talked of a script being readied for a sequel that was initially dated for August this year.

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I was hoping to see a sequel that fixed some of the issues I had with the remake, but I don't really care at this point. Nothing could top the originals, so I don't need new entries necessarily.

Doesn't really bother me they won't be doing another but seems a tad surprising I guess. Maybe they'll change their minds in the future.

Considering how goddamn fun the remake was, I'm disappointed. Damn.

qft

You know the first couple times I watched it I wasn't that big on it, but after a couple repeat viewings its a little better. Still not my favorite or anything but its watchable.

Agreed, that's too bad.

I really like it. Right around the middle if I were to put them order of best to worst.

That sucks big time. I was looking forward to it.

Why would they not want to make another? It's cash cow.

there was a preliminary plans to film this 3D - oh well.

Was it still a co-production with Paramount and New Line?

Why would the studios kill it when the script was already written?

Studios don't give a shit if a script is written. I'm guessing there's some serious backstory to this. I hope I can find out what happened. I know a few people who run in the same circle as Fuller and Form, so I'm going to try to dig at it.

I was meh on the F13 remake the first time I saw it (and reviewed it -- my first DVDTalk review) and liked it less on repeats, but I was interested to see Jason tromping around in the snow, which is one of the ideas that had been previously floated for F13 2 v2.0.

I am also disappointed because it removes any burning impetus for Paramount to finish releasing the series on Blu-Ray.

Bloody Disgusting is reporting that F13th franchise rights have been signed over to Paramount from WB in a new agreement. Paramount only has the rights for 5 years, so a new film may get fast-tracked.

Report here.

Didn't Warner just acquire the rights to Paramount's F13 back catalog?

I'm also curious if Warner maintains merchandising rights, considering they've been bundling the Jason and Freddy licenses for figures, apparel, and so on.

Warner has owned the film rights to the franchise when New Line acquired the property in the early '90s. However, Paramount sold them everything but the title. That's why their sequels were called Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X, not Friday the 13th: Part X - Jason In Space. Paramount co-financed the reboot with Warner.

Warner is now distributing all of Paramount's catalog titles onto Blu-ray, that's why we're seeing a boxset come out later this year.

Friday the 13th were always my favorite slasher films. I remember the last one was jokily in continuity with the Transformers films. All directed/producted by Michael Bay. Guy who was Megan Fox's character's boyfriend was in F13 & he had the same truck that he had in Transformers. So after Mikaela dumped him for Sam, he went out to the lake & got murdered.