Freddy vs. Jason
As he is consider to bethe best Jason Voorheesby most fans of theFriday the 13thfranchise , Kane Hodder was outwardly disappointed by his not being throw as Jason inFreddy vs. Jason ; the stuntman and actor managed to make the net cut anyway .
Ronny Yu’sFreddy vs. Jason(2003 ) brought fans the highly - foretell grudge match between two iconic repulsion franchise killer : Freddy Krueger fromA Nightmare on Elm Street(Robert Englund ) andFriday the 13th ’s Jason Voorhees ( Ken Kirzinger ) . Not only has Kane Hodder play Jasonmore times than any other actor , and had a long - standing friendship — and playfully acted rivalry — with Robert Englund , who played Freddy in everyA Nightmare on Elm Streetmovie except the 2010 remake , which replaced him with Jackie Earle Haley . While the decision not to vomit Hodder as Jason was mostly due to the manager ’s esthetic predilection to have Kirzinger — who is 6'5 " , two inches taller than Hodder — column over the 5'9 " Englund .
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However , in a true second of circumstance , Hodder made it intoFreddy vs. Jasonafter all . The doer was vocal about his letdown and the lover ' disappointment that he did n’t get to act out the big fight between Freddy and Jason on the big screen . Yu maintain thatthe decision to throw Kirzinger was New Line ’s conclusion , but the franchise ’s creator , Sean S. Cunningham disagreed that Kirzinger was the better choice . Perhaps Hodder was intend to be in the film after all — it would explain the random face of his cameo role .
How Kane Hodder Made It Into Freddy vs. Jason After All
Hodder mentioned his cameo inan interview with We get This Coveredback in 2018 . harmonise to Hodder , even the filmmakers were n’t cognisant that he made it into the movie ’s final cut . say Hodder , " there was a scene where they ’re at the insane mental institution or whatever , the infirmary , and there ’s a film playing on a tv set set — and it hap to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 " . He went on to explain that he was a stunt performing artist in the 1990 as Leatherface for R.A. Mihailoff ; he was also the film ’s stunt coordinator . Hodder began as a stunt performing artist in the 1980s and has done stunts in over 50 motion-picture show .
Despite his professionalism and skill as a stunt performing artist , Hodder managed to prolong second and 3rd degree burns over a large part of his torso from a full - body burn stunt go bad wrong . For a moment , he was regard to play Freddy Krueger inA Nightmare on Elm Streetbecause of these burns . Despite the traumatic experience , Hodder still agreed to do another full - body burn stunt inFriday the thirteenth Part VII : The New Blood , andset a Guinness World Recordfor being amply on fire for an astonishing 44 seconds .
While it was n’t quite what fans of Hodder ’s Jason Voorhees wanted , it ’s a sport piece of trivium that connect the actor to one of the finest collaborations between two horror movie franchises . Freddy vs. Jasonmay not have begin the interconnected universe that some wait it might — andshared universe have n’t work well for horror moviesin superior general — but it was a delicacy for slasher movie fans , and deliver on a long - standing hope to have two titans of the genre duking it out .
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