Bus Monitor's Cut Death In Jason Lives?
Last July, a bit of interesting news surfaced pertaining to Jason Lives: Friday The 13th Part 6. Director Royce Freeman was hard at work finishing his newest film, ‘Rapture’ and needed to shoot some additional scenes.. While casting extras for those scenes, he hired actress Sheri Levine. Sheri played the bus monitor of the bus that drops the kids off at Camp Forest Green in Jason Lives.
According to Royce, the two were chatting during the filming of the extra scenes and Sheri mentioned that she had a death scene that was cut from Jason Lives! Royce mentioned that she did not elaborate on what the death was or how it fit into the film other than saying that there were a few other moments leading up to her death. This was indeed an interesting revelation as Sheri’s role was so small that it doesn’t seem like her character’s death would be that significant.
I followed up with Royce a few months later in October 2010 and he mentioned that he did not have the opportunity to find out more from Sheri about her supposed deleted scene. This is one instance of a cut scene fans might like to find more information about. At this time we still cannot confirm if there was a planned death for her character.
The shooting script and call sheets we have in our possession do not outline her characters death, however, there are a lot of deaths that appear in the film that were not written into the original script. It is possible that during filming, Sheri's bus monitor character could have been talked about as having an impromptu death scene, but there is just no record of this to be found. There will be more to follow on this as information becomes available!
According to Royce, the two were chatting during the filming of the extra scenes and Sheri mentioned that she had a death scene that was cut from Jason Lives! Royce mentioned that she did not elaborate on what the death was or how it fit into the film other than saying that there were a few other moments leading up to her death. This was indeed an interesting revelation as Sheri’s role was so small that it doesn’t seem like her character’s death would be that significant.
I followed up with Royce a few months later in October 2010 and he mentioned that he did not have the opportunity to find out more from Sheri about her supposed deleted scene. This is one instance of a cut scene fans might like to find more information about. At this time we still cannot confirm if there was a planned death for her character.
The shooting script and call sheets we have in our possession do not outline her characters death, however, there are a lot of deaths that appear in the film that were not written into the original script. It is possible that during filming, Sheri's bus monitor character could have been talked about as having an impromptu death scene, but there is just no record of this to be found. There will be more to follow on this as information becomes available!
that could have been pretty good - if true...
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Jasonsfury anything in your call sheets about this?
I wish we saw her death. She only has 2 lines & she was still terrible.
ReplyDeleteShe reminds me of like an older sibling's friend that is young but still has a crazy smoker's voice & is haggard.
I wonder is Jason cut off her DSLs.
It is real interesting to hear about this. I just don't understand why this character would need to be killed off. She had one line and then left for good? However, the guys behind the movie did insert two random people into the mix (couple in the woods) just to kill them.
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Hmmm... sounds kind of vague, did she specify to Royce whether it was filmed or just planned & then scrapped? Funny thing, I was watching the Part 6 Deluxe day before yesterday with the commentary track (& all the extras too), and it's easily one of the most comprehensive DVDs in the entire series. If her death was actually filmed, there would have been mention of it on there, and most likely shown in the cut scenes, or at the very least, talked about in Crystal Lake Memories. There was no such scene in the screenplay that I read either, or in the novelization. My guess is that they talked about doing it while already in the midst of production but ultimately opted not to. Still, one more random death would've been cool.
ReplyDeleteAnd a small side note, I've never told anyone this before, but the very first time I saw Jason Lives, when it was released on VHS, I guess I wasn't paying too close attention to the bus monitor, because when I got to the RV scene with Nikki & Cort, I thought Nikki WAS the bus monitor. I realized I was wrong when I watched the movie for the third or fourth time during the two days I had it before having to return it to the video store (gosh, remember those places?).
She was nasty, I think she deserved to be killed by Jason, I would have loved to watch her get it.
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