<P> After more than 15 years of off - and - on development, and approximately $6 million spent in 18 unused scripts from more than a dozen screenwriters, New Line finally produced a Freddy and Jason crossover for 2003 . One of the biggest hurdles for the film was developing a story that managed to bring the two horror icons together . Potential stories varied widely, from Freddy having molested and drowned Jason as a child, to a cult of Freddy worshipers called the "Fred Heads". Ultimately, screenwriting duo Damian Shannon and Mark Swift wrote a script that stayed true to both the established backstories of Freddy and Jason as well as to the continuity of the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street films . In January 2007, Platinum Dunes producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller outlined their intended goal to bring a Friday the 13th reboot to life . New Line approached Fuller and Form to create a reboot, but because Paramount still owned certain copyrights to the first film, the reboot would not be able to use anything from the original . Paramount, who wanted to be included in the development of a reboot, approached the producers and gave them license to use anything from the original films, including the title . With Paramount on board, Fuller and Form decided they wanted to use pieces from the early films . Fuller said, "I think there are moments we want to address, like how does the hockey mask happen ." Shannon and Swift, writers of Freddy vs. Jason, were brought on to pen the script for the new film, with Marcus Nispel, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake of 2003, hired in November 2007 to direct . </P> <P> When Harry Manfredini began working on the musical score for the 1980 film, the decision was made to play the music only alongside the killer so as not to trick the audience into believing that the killer was around during moments that they were not supposed to be . Manfredini explains that the lack of music for certain scenes was deliberate: "There's a scene where one of the girls (...) is setting up the archery area (...) One of the guys shoots an arrow into the target and just misses her . It's a huge scare, but if you notice, there's no music . That was a choice ." Manfredini also noted that when something was about to happen, the music would cut off so that the audience would relax a bit, which allowed the scare to become more effective . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Friday the 13th theme Harry Manfredini's theme, used to identify the presence of the killer in the Friday the 13th film series </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Friday the 13th theme Harry Manfredini's theme, used to identify the presence of the killer in the Friday the 13th film series </Td> </Tr>

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