FRIDAY THE 13TH REMAKE: TREK STAR TO PLAY JASON’S MOTHER
It has been revealed that the lady set to play Pamela Voorhees in the forthcoming remake/franchise reboot of FRIDAY THE 13TH will be none other than former STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE star Nana Visitor. Nana played the feisty Bajoran character major Kira Nerys in the highly acclaimed spinoff from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and became a firm favourite with fans during the show’s seven year run. She also appeared in the TV series based on the 1988 comedy flick ‘Working Girl’, the Jessica Alba TV show Dark Angel, CSI and even the recent Battlestar Galactica phenomenon.
I love this bit of casting news. Aside from the fact that I had a teenage crush on Nana Visitor when she was in DS9, she is a very powerful onscreen presence and it is going to be very cool indeed seeing her as the psychotic (but oh so loving) mother of Jason Voorhees. The Friday the 13th remake is set to be released on Friday the 13th of February, 2009. It is to be directed by Marcus Nispel from a script by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon.