Nightmare on Elm Street Reimagined

[nugunz]

Platinum Dunes, the same production team that helped to bring us the Friday the 13th, and Texas Chainsaw remakes are now going about the bussiness of reimagining the eighties slasher, Nightmare on Elm Street.

Director, Sameul Bayer to Direct. (protip: Bayer is a longtime music video director. Nirvana's 'Smells like Teen Spirit' is one of his.)

There is a catch, though. It's been all but confirmed that Robert Englund, the star of the franchise, and Freddy Krueger himself, will not be reaprising the role of which he became famous for. Although, it is likely, he will make an appearance in the new movie. To what extent?- I guess for now, all we can do is speculate.

So who gets to put on the claws? There are some rumors going around that Billy Bob Thornton or even Watchmen actor Jack Earle Haley (Rorschach) could be taking over the role. However, these rumors seem to loose credibility. Jack Fuller of Platinum Dunes Told Shock Till you Drop that "We haven't even begun negotiating with anyone yet"

Looks like we can expect a new Freddy some time in 2010.







Off the record, I kind of think a reimagined FK is a great Idea. Englund has always been a great Krueger. Hell, for the most part, he is Krueger. But it's been a long time since we've seen a really terrifying Nightmare on Elm Street flick, and I don't know about you, but I'm pretty excited about this.

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Dear God!!!!

Hollywood you are killing off the beloved classics from my childhood

First it was Romero's unholy trilogy, then came Friday the 13th which the originals should not be remade and the new ones such as Jason X should be burned, The Punisher which utterly sucked, next is Witch Mountain, and now Nightmare on elm street which will be ruined simply by not having Robert Engulnd as the role of Freddy.

Quit trying to revive great series that did the smart thing by creating great and loved movies and then didn't try to push it until you couldn't make a decent series out of it and ruined it for the fans.

As much as most of the comic book movies and game movies have either sucked or not been true to the comics at least they are something new for the "film industry". The ideas are not new but the movies usually offer a fresh look to films that give cinematographers a chance to shine.

Original films of these "reboots" were great because they had a great story, great acting, the right cast, and came out at the right time. The reboots have amounted to either 1) look at our amazing CG graphics that make the film look better to replace the crappy story telling we did and the horrible acting of our cast. 2) look at all the realistic blood and guts we display in our film where more people die quicker than the original and look at all the naked women we added to distract you from our crappy remake with bad acting and our really bad chopped down story line of the original.

HEY HOLLYWOOD!!!!

I have an idea: COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW AND ORIGINAL LIKE YOUR PREDECESSORS DID WHICH MADE PEOPLE INTERESTED IN MOVIES AND WHAT WOULD COME OUT NEXT!

[The_Disturbed_One]

Dear God!!!!

Hollywood you are killing off the beloved classics from my childhood

First it was Romero's unholy trilogy, then came Friday the 13th which the originals should not be remade and the new ones such as Jason X should be burned, The Punisher which utterly sucked, next is Witch Mountain, and now Nightmare on elm street which will be ruined simply by not having Robert Engulnd as the role of Freddy.

Quit trying to revive great series that did the smart thing by creating great and loved movies and then didn't try to push it until you couldn't make a decent series out of it and ruined it for the fans.

As much as most of the comic book movies and game movies have either sucked or not been true to the comics at least they are something new for the "film industry". The ideas are not new but the movies usually offer a fresh look to films that give cinematographers a chance to shine.

Original films of these "reboots" were great because they had a great story, great acting, the right cast, and came out at the right time. The reboots have amounted to either 1) look at our amazing CG graphics that make the film look better to replace the crappy story telling we did and the horrible acting of our cast. 2) look at all the realistic blood and guts we display in our film where more people die quicker than the original and look at all the naked women we added to distract you from our crappy remake with bad acting and our really bad chopped down story line of the original.

HEY HOLLYWOOD!!!!

I have an idea: COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW AND ORIGINAL LIKE YOUR PREDECESSORS DID WHICH MADE PEOPLE INTERESTED IN MOVIES AND WHAT WOULD COME OUT NEXT!

Dude you read my mind completely. I don't know if you saw but they also remade Last House on the Left: another Wes Craven masterpiece which will be utterly torn apart.

[nugunz]

I think you have to look at these movies as a seperate entity from the movies we know. It's not like a redux, like lucas did with the original SW trilogy. The originals are still there. Still intact. You'll never loose them. This is just a reimagining of the origanal material. Almost a seperate, or alternate storyline, apart from that of where the franchise was going.

A younger audiance, who might not have appreciated the older movies now have a chance to meet the characters in their own time. Everybody remembers the big flicks they saw in the theaters when they were young. Alot of people will be exposed to Nightmare, or F13th for the first time.

If you picked up the beatles at Let it Be, wouldn't you go backwards down the list, for The Yellow Submarine and Hard Days night, and everything in between? It's the same kind of thing with these movies. I loved nightmare. But I wasn't born until 85. It came out in 84. I had to get acquainted with Freddy late. Now It's my little brother and sister's turn. So to speak.

Remakes aren't there to take the place of the original works. That isn't the intent of the producers, director or cast when they set out to make these movies. Mostly it's monatary. Freddy has a big name, he don't need so much pimpin. But the spirit of the artform is still there. So now we get to see "what if" it had been done this way, or from this person or peoples point of views. It's all, still, just in good fun.

[The_Disturbed_One]

Yeah I guess you're right in that respect. I mean, Halloween was great back when it first came out in 78, and I thought Zombie's version would kinda suck, considering what I saw of House of 1000 Corpses. But, I loved his version almost as much as I did the original. I guess its more along the lines of the filmmakers themselves and how they do in fact interpret and use the material already given. Zombie's darker version of the Halloween added a new twist to the material. Whereas the new Friday the 13th felt like the same old garbage done a billion times before, except Jason can now run. (Which took a lot of the enjoyment out of making fun of the Hockey-mask menace)

On a side-note, I haven't really seen any of Sameul Bayer's work, and switching music videos to feature-length productions is a big leap, so I don't know what to expect. I guess I'll go in with an open mind, but I don't know if anyone can don the glove like Englund did.

Real quick: Who is writing (wrote) the screenplay?

[nugunz]

I don't know, and I can't find anything. But I'll keep an eye out, man.