Todd Farmer - Career

Career

Farmer's first film Jason X was the 10th entry in the Friday the 13th franchise. He wrote the screenplay and chose a futuristic setting in order to not collide with the continuity of Freddy vs. Jason, another film in the series, being still in development at the time.

Farmer also wrote the screenplay for The Messengers, but not much of it found its way into the finished film which went through several re-writes after the original production company had sold the rights to Ghost House / Mandate Pictures by means of a turnaround deal. 2 years later though, Messengers 2: The Scarecrow, a straight-to-DVD production and technically a prequel to the first film, actually used Farmer's original script and adapted it with only minor changes in the third act.

Together with director Patrick Lussier, Farmer wrote the screenplay for 4 films so far, with the 3D remake of the 1981 Canadian slasher film My Bloody Valentine being their first collaboration. Most recently, they made the supernatural revenge thriller Drive Angry starring Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard and William Fichtner.

In between both films they wrote the script for a third installment of the Halloween reboot, which has not been turned into a movie yet due to a lack of funding. Right now Farmer and Lussier are working on a reboot of Hellraiser which will explore the world Clive Barker created in the original film based on his novella The Hellbound Heart.

Apart from writing, Farmer also played smaller parts in all of his films except for the two The Messengers installments.