‘Hatchet 5’ – Adam Green Updates on Behind the Scenes Issues Holding Up Victor Crowley’s Return

It’s now been eight years since the release of the fourth installment in the Hatchet franchise, titled Victor Crowley, which popped up as a surprise back in 2017. The character hasn’t been heard from since, leaving many fans to wonder if the fourth film was Crowley’s last.

Franchise creator Adam Green, who directed all but one installment in the slasher saga, is next directing a shark-themed survival movie titled The Ascent, which will mark Green’s return to the director’s chair for the first time since Victor Crowley back in 2017. In the meantime, he provides an update on Hatchet‘s future in a new chat with podcast Talks from the Crypt.

“It’s always a possibility. I can’t get into all of the minutiae because it would take up six more hours, but the long story short is, once we can make the movie with different entities behind the scenes at the top level, then I’ll be interested in doing [Hatchet] 5,” Green explains. “But things need to change. That’s probably enough; people can make of that what they want.”

Green continues, “The creative team is still very much a happy family and would love to do it, but… we need to be under new management, maybe that’s the best way to put it. The diplomatic way to put it. I think the old management knows at this point, I’m not kidding when I keep saying I’m not going to do it. So we’ll see what happens.”

You can listen to Talks from the Crypt’s full interview with Adam Green below.

A throwback to the gory slashers of the 1980s, the original Hatchet was released in 2006, with horror legend Kane Hodder playing bayou butcher Victor Crowley in all four movies so far.