Jason X
Film poster
Directed by	James Isaac
Produced by	Noel Cunningham Sean S. Cunningham Geoff Garrett James Isaac Marilyn Stonehouse
Written by	Victor Miller (characters) Todd Farmer (written by)
Starring	Kane Hodder Lexa Doig Lisa Ryder
Music by	Harry Manfredini Ethan Wiley (songs)
Cinematography	Derick V. Underschultz
Editing by	David Handman
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	26 April 2002
Running time	93 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$14,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$16,951,798 (worldwide)
Preceded by	Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Followed by	Freddy vs. Jason
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Jason X is a 2002 science fiction / slasher film, and the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series, starring Kane Hodder as the mass murderer Jason Voorhees. The film made $16,951,798 worldwide with a $14,000,000 budget.^[1] Image File history File links Jason_x. ... Sean S. Cunningham is a writer, producer and director of films born on December 31st 1941. ... Victor Miller is a television and film writer. ... Kane Warren Hodder (Born: April 8, 1956 in Auburn, California, USA[1]) is an American actor and stuntman. ... Lexus Lexa Doig Alexandra L. Doig (born June 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress, known by her stage name Lexa Doig. ... Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda. ... Ethan Wiley is a screenwriter and director who has contributed his talents to several horror films, including House, House II: The Second Story, and Children of the Corn 5 (Miramax/Dimension). ... New Line redirects here. ... is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Freddy vs. ... The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. ... Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft, robots, or other technologies. ... The original 1974 Black Christmas is considered the first authentic slasher. ... DVD cover for Friday the 13th (1980) Friday the 13th is a popular series of American slasher films. ... Kane Warren Hodder (Born: April 8, 1956 in Auburn, California, USA[1]) is an American actor and stuntman. ... Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. ... Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ...

The film was conceived as means of moving the franchise ahead while Freddy vs. Jason was still stuck in development hell. Jason X is set in the future (the opening scene being set in at least 2008, and Jason revealed as having been held captive since 2008) so as not to confuse the continuity of the series. Freddy vs. ... Development hell is media-industry jargon for a film, television screenplay, or computer program[1] (or sometimes just a concept or idea) getting stuck in development and never going into production. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer. ...

Plot

In 2008, Jason Voorhees is captured by the US government. Rowan, a government researcher, leads several unsuccessful attempts to execute him. By 2010, the government decides to study Jason and his rapid cell regeneration, seeing profit with new technologies. Jason escapes, however, killing several soldiers. Rowan manages to lure him into the cryonic chamber and activates it. This had been what Rowan had been fighting with the government to do. However Jason manages to stab her through the door and in the process freezes Rowan and the entire room with him. 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... 2010 (MMX) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Not to be confused with cryogenics. ...

Jason gets an upgrade in Jason X

In the year 2455, after the apocalypse on Earth, five students on a field trip led by Professor Lowe enter the facility and find Jason and Rowan. They take them back to their space shuttle and take off into space. They dock on a large spacecraft (manned by a total of 21 people, including other students, soldiers, a pilot, an engineer and a female android) and take Rowan and Jason's bodies to separate labs to examine them and reanimate Rowan. Over a videophone, professor Lowe's financial backer explains that Voorhees' body could be worth a substantial amount to a collector. Image File history File links UberJason. ... Image File history File links UberJason. ... The 25th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 2401–2500 of the Gregorian calendar. ... Layers of Atmosphere - not to scale (NOAA)[1] Outer space, sometimes simply called space, refers to the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... The Space Shuttle Discovery as seen from the International Space Station. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

As Lowe's intern, Adrienne, studies Jason, he awakens and kills her by dunking her face in liquid nitrogen and smashing it. He then takes a surgical tool that resembles a machete and leaves to kill another student. After discovering the intern's corpse, Professor Lowe, Rowan, and his students are sent to Lab 1 where they should be safe from Jason. The ships trained soldiers are sent to find and take Jason alive. Jason is underestimated and soon kills every soldier one by one until only the sergeant is left. Jason then kills the ship's pilot on its approach to a space station, causing the station's destruction. Jason then breaks into the lab and kills the professor.

With the ship badly damaged, Rowan and three other students go to the shuttle, while a student with his android go to the armory to get weapons, and two others go to the bridge to prepare the shuttle departure. Jason kills again and arrives at the shuttle door. Kensa panics and she shuts the shuttle door, stopping Janessa and the other survivors entering. Jason makes his way to the shuttle door. Janessa begs Kensa to open the door, but she refuses. As the other survivors arrive Kensa panics, and begins the shuttle, but not realizing the shuttle is still connected to the ship. As Kensa sets the shuttle off it smashes in to the ship, killing Kensa.

With the ship severely damaged, the survivors send out a distress call, and it is soon answered by a patrol-shuttle. The survivors must however retreat to a section of the ship and separate it from the main section which is going to explode before the patrol can reach them. While they are setting explosive charges for this separation, the nanotechnology in the sickbay brings Jason back in a more powerful cyborg form. As the new Jason comes upon them, the android tries to battle him again, but Jason knocks the android's head off with a single blow; another student however sacrifices himself by setting off the explosive charges while Rowan and three others escape. Nanotechnology refers to a field of applied science and technology whose theme is the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale, generally 100 nanometers or smaller, and the fabrication of devices that lie within that size range. ... For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ...

But Jason is not dead. He punches through the hull causing a hull breach. The remaining four survivors try to escape, but Janessa cannot escape the gravity pull. She holds on to a grate while another is pulled from the floor and is stopped at the hole where the gravity is pulling. The other students try to save her but she loosens grip and is sucked through the grate, killing her. Using a simulation of Crystal Lake to distract Jason, Rowan and the last remaining student escape onto the patrol-shuttle. As the shuttle leaves, the rest of their ship explodes, and Jason is sent hurtling towards the shuttle, however, quick thinking by the sergeant, and both of them are burned up in the atmosphere of Earth 2. In a final shot, two teens beside a forest lake on Earth 2 set off to find where the falling star fell; Jason's mask is shown in the water. A holodeck on the Enterprise-D; the arch and exit are prominent. ... An example of the Terrian race Earth 2 was a short-lived television series which aired on NBC from 1994 - 1995. ...

Cast

• Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees
• Lexa Doig as Rowan
• Lisa Ryder as Kay-Em 14
• Chuck Campbell as Tsunaron
• Peter Mensah as Sgt. Brodski
• David Cronenberg as Dr. Wimmer
• Melyssa Ade as Janessa
• Derwin Jordan as Waylander
• Jonathan Potts as Professor Lowe
• Kristi Angus as Adrienne

Kane Warren Hodder (Born: April 8, 1956 in Auburn, California, USA[1]) is an American actor and stuntman. ... Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ... Lexus Lexa Doig Alexandra L. Doig (born June 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress, known by her stage name Lexa Doig. ... Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda. ... Chuck Campbell is a Canadian actor probably best known for his role as a Technician on Stargate Atlantis. ... Peter Mensah is an actor who has appeared in such films as Hidalgo, Tears of the Sun, Jason X, Harvard Man, Bless the Child and television appearances such as Star Trek: Enterprise, Tracker, Witchblade, Blue Murder, Relic Hunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander: The Raven and La Femme Nikita. ... David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943[2]) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. ... Jonathan Potts is an actor whose career began in the late 1980s. ... Kristi Angus (born in Kelowna, British Columbia) is an actress who has appeared mostly in episodic roles in TV series such as The Twilight Zone, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070 or Millennium. ...

Score

Main article: Jason X (score)

The film score was composed and conducted by Harry Manfredini. It was released on Varèse Sarabande. Jason X is the musical score to the film of the same name. ... Varèse Sarabande is a record label which specializes in soundtracks and original cast recordings, reissues of hard-to-find, long out-of-print or previously unavailable albums and new releases by major artists no longer under contract with a label. ...

Trivia/Notes

• Lisa Ryder and Lexa Doig also starred together in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda where Lexa Doig was the android (Rommie) and Lisa Ryder was the human (Rebecca "Beka" Valentine).
• This and the previous film contain the Jason Voorhees characters and the series premise, but not the title Friday The 13th. After a disappointing reception to Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Paramount Pictures sold the Jason Vorhees character to New Line Cinema. Consequently, the New Line movies that feature Jason are Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (Part Nine), Jason X (Part Ten) and Freddy Vs Jason which combines Jason and New Line mainstay Freddy Krueger.
• In the scene where Dallas is smashed against the wall by Jason, the stuntman making this stunt actually broke his nose.
• When the character "Stony" opens the door and gets stabbed, and his blood sprays in Kinsa's face, she screams. According to the audio commentary, the effects guys were not supposed to spray the blood into her face. She was screaming not because she just saw her boyfriend die, but because the fake blood was burning her eyes.
• The "virtual '80s" scene was originally meant to be much more detailed, including a number of topless women playing volleyball. One idea even included the appearance of Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother, and even went so far as to have Jason attack her, showing the extent of just how evil he had become. The latter idea was dropped.
• The "sleeping bag death" scene was first done in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, and was actually ad-libbed by Kane Hodder in that film out of frustration at re-shooting the same scene over and over.
• Originally, the bio-mechanical Uber-Jason was meant to be a surprise for the film's finale. But because of early script reviews and foreign posters, New Line Cinema decided to make Uber-Jason the major advertising gimmick for the movie.
• A number of video game references, including Doom ("do you have the BFG?") and Quake (the shot gun used was the same design as the gun in Quake 3).
• The idea of Jason in space was first conceived in a parody on MadTV entitled Apollo the 13th: Jason Takes NASA
• One of the abandoned script ideas had Jason in L.A. caught in the middle of a rival gang war.
• The film was announced in 1999, and completed in 2000, but was not released in America until 2002, well after many foreign countries had released it.

Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda. ... Lexus Lexa Doig Alexandra L. Doig (born June 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress, known by her stage name Lexa Doig. ... The featured ship of the Andromeda television show, the Andromeda Ascendant Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda is a science fiction television series, a posthumous creation of Gene Roddenberry. ... Rommie on Andromeda. ... Rebecca Beka Valentine is a fictional character in the television series Andromeda, played by Lisa Ryder. ... This article is about the superstition. ... ... This article is about the fictional character. ... For the ball used in this sport, see Volleyball (ball). ... Pamela Sue Voorhees is a fictional character in the Friday the 13th films. ... Kane Warren Hodder (Born: April 8, 1956 in Auburn, California, USA[1]) is an American actor and stuntman. ... New Line redirects here. ... A gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something stand out from its contemporaries. ... For other uses, see Mad TV (disambiguation). ... Apollo 13 is a 1995 film portrayal of the ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970. ...

Other media

In 2005, Black Flame, a subsidiary of Games Workshop, began publishing a series of paperback books based on Jason X and aimed towards young adults. While the first book adapts the film, the following books feature new storylines based on the character in the setting established by the Jason X film. The five books in the series are Jason X by Pat Cadigan, Jason X: The Experiment by Pat Cadigan, Jason X: Planet Of The Beast by Nancy Kilpatrick, Jason X: Death Moon by Alex Johnson and Jason X: To The Third Power by Nancy Kilpatrick. For the unrelated defunct American company, see Game Designers Workshop. ... Young adult (YA) literature is literature written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents. ...

Avatar Press produced two comic book titles based on this film: Jason X, a one-shot by Brian Pulido that picks up as a sequel to the movie, and Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X, a two-issue mini-series by Mike Wolfer that pits the two versions of Jason against each other. Brian Pulido Brian Pulido is a multi-talented creator, writer and producer of various comic books, films and related properties. ...

References

External links

• Jason X at the Internet Movie Database
• Jason X at Allmovie
• Jason X at Rotten Tomatoes
• Jason X at Box Office Mojo
• Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site
• "Inside Jason X" With Screen Writer Todd Farmer at ToxicUniverse.com.
• "Inside Jason X" with Director Jim Isaac at ToxicUniverse.com.