Hallelujah, the trailer for this rumble royale is finally here and the website is open (some nice wallpapers to scare your little sister!) This is another one I have to see even though it might suck. Make that "CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT!" Jason Voorhees, everyone's favourite slasher from the Friday the 13th-movies teams up with Freddy Krueger, the king of nightmares and star of the "Nightmare on Elmstreet"-series. This project has been in the making for years and I don't know what took them so long, but the movie is in post-production (see link below for the first pictures) and it has Keley Rowland of Destiny's Child in it

This is gonna be the first movie which combines two succesful licenses which have gotten kind of lame. But seeing these guys kill each other is something no serious horror-fan can dare to miss. "Freddy vs.Jason" aka. "The Friday the 13th Nightmare" or whatever it's gonna be called might make way for more projects like that. "Superman/Batman" is on the way already and "Aliens vs.Predator" has been talked over and over after the comic-book and the video-game raised millions of dollars. We're living in a fan-culture after all and legions of nerds will bite their nails to see shit like "Vampirella vs. Blade" (hey, Hollywood, I just came up with that one, but doesn't it sound great? Gimme some money and go ahead with it!). I wonder if they do a sequel of "Freddy vs. Jason" and this movie is only the beginning of another long line of boring follow-ups. Then again you can still do "Nightmare on Halloween" first. You can't match "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween", eh? Too bad those guys are stuck with their special slasher-days!

But it sounds like "Freddy vs.Jason" is going to be a fun surreal movie. No official homepage yet, but Robert Englund who play old pizzaface has made a few remarks here and there.

"I always thought the real trick of 'Freddy vs. Jason' [is that] you had to get into Jason's nightmares. We've got to see what makes Jason tick. In this movie we get in there. And Freddy's walking around in there, getting his feet dirty. And it's pretty sick stuff...Freddy's at loose ends to get people afraid of him anymore, [because] if you don't dream, Freddy can't hurt you. Freddy's trying to regenerate himself and he's using Jason to instill fear in the relatives of the offspring of the original Elm Street vigilantes. Freddy needs to manipulate Jason, and when he's in the dreams he can. What happens is that Freddy creates a Frankenstein. ... Freddy kind of spoils him, gives him a little too much dog food and he kind of turns on his master. And that's the gist of the plot watching the carnage unfold as Freddy and Jason wreak havoc. Now it's [like the TV show] 'Millennium' - serial-killer creepy. It's Freddy's scrapbook. It's what Freddy was doing [in the boiler room] before they threw the Molotov cocktails. I'm also going to do this scene right when he gets off with the hung jury, when my lawyer gets me off"

That friendly weblog Joblo.com
also managed to get a short interview with Robert Englund. Here's an excerpt:

"It's like some gorgeous, twisted, violent Dutch comic book you know-- Asian, Cyber Japanese Cyber Punk, illustrated comic book with Scorsese camera angles, Orson Wells camera angles and film noir style...it's REALLY interesting! There's also lots of different colors plays, kind of like Paul Schrader's style. It's just really a great classy, violent popcorn movie. I've been calling it a gourmet popcorn that's spelled...G-O-R-E. Englund also dropped a hint about "Freddy meeting baby Jason" in the film, and when prodded about how many "old school" fans are afraid that the new film is basically gonna sell out to the new generation, Englund replied: "Freddy is less funny (here)...and there's more violence and more twisted shit in this film than in the last 4 Freddy movies."

full interview at Joblo.com
Freddy vs. Jason - First Production Pictures

MTV has also done a report:

"Lights are flashing, techno's pumping and girls are wearing very little. That familiar "choo-choo, ha-ha" whisper is heard as Jason appears — on the dance floor. Opting not to cut a rug, he cuts the rave party short instead, hacking apart the kids and halving the keg with his machete.

"Now it's [like the TV show] 'Millennium' — serial-killer creepy," he promised. "It's Freddy's scrapbook. It's what Freddy was doing [in the boiler room] before they threw the Molotov cocktails. I'm also going to do this scene right when he gets off with the hung jury, when my lawyer gets me off. I'm trying to get a suit for Freddy. I see him as being kind of like a rockabilly Lee Harvey Oswald." quoted from full story at mtv.com