Cronenberg vs Jason

David Cronenberg, director of eXistenZ, Crash and Dead Ringers, is to step in front of the camera for the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th horror franchise. Jason X will be directed by special effects man, and Cronenberg collaborator, James Isaac. Set in 2455, the film sees Cronenberg as a professor who discovers a frozen Jason when he takes a group of students to earth on a school trip. With the hockey-masked serial killer onboard their spaceship things, unsurprisingly, start to get bloody. Commenting on his character, Cronenberg told the Hollywood Reporter, "I basically play a stupid doctor who deserves to die." It's not the director's first acting appearance - he's had roles in films including Last Night, To Die For and Clive Barker's Nightbreed. He's also no stranger to Friday the 13th, having directed an episode of the TV spin-off in 1987.