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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

i take it you mean Robert Englund mate?

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

Legendary music video director Samuel Bayer is tipped to be helming the upcoming remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" for Platinum Dunes

But unlike other franchise reboots which bring in various elements from the sequels, this one will be more of a direct remake of the first picture.

Bayer's credits include Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", The Cranberries' "Zombie", Garbage's "Stupid Girl", Green Day's "American Idiot" and Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around". Bayer makes his directorial debut on "Fiasco Heights" which Platinum Dunes is also producing.

I don't know about this film...its already on dodgy ground as it is as a remake of such a classic horror but now not only will it be a direct carbon copy of the original it(Which I hate the thoughts of) will also have an untested director...a guy who directs music vids??? I don't get that decision at all??

Still no word on who will play Freddy... that in my opinion is paramount on the success or failure of the project
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

Two high profile casting rumors hit the Net in the past two days regarding the "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake and both have quickly been shot down.(thank goodness

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First up Just Jared reported that Lindsay Lohan was cast and included quotes from Dunes co-partner Andrew Form.
(The quotes from Form were totally made up

and the actual rumour was that Lohan would play the 'Nancy' role

...like I said earlier..Thank goodness

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Not much later a Latino Review report emerged indicated that "Watchmen" and "Little Children" actor Jackie Earle Haley was the front runner to play Freddy Kruger.

Fuller quickly denied that report over at STYD saying "We have not chosen a Freddy Krueger we're not even negotiating with anyone yet."

To be honest I don't really know Jackie Earle Haley all that well to judge whether he'd be good or not in the Freddy role? Its just so hard to picture anyone else but Robert Englund in the part

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

Well its confirmed Jackie Earle Haley ("Watchmen," "Little Children") is now locked in to play the new Freddy Krueger in New Line Cinema's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" remake according to the trades.

Kyle Gallner (TV's "Veronica Mars," "The Haunting in Connecticut") has also been cast as Quentin. Samuel Bayer is directing the relaunch, which was written by Wesley Strick.

Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing. Filming kicks off May 5th in Chicago for release next April.

Heard this about the new reboot....
Freddy is no longer a janitor who kills twenty kids and gets off on a technicality but a child molester like originally envisioned by Wes Craven (The decision to change this was to avoid being accused of
exploiting a spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production.)

he also won't be sarcastic or have funny one liners that we have all got used to with Freddy and in fact may speak very little in the project at all though this could also be kept minimal so a new actor(Jackie Earle Haley) can make his own mark on the character...but he will be much more evil...darker than ever before...

He will of course still have the old hat, jumper and razor glove

It will be set in present day with think-backs and dream sequences explaining the following events....
Freddy will be a janitor and gardner at a pre-school..a handsome guy who gets on well with the kids and they all like him...he plays tag with them...but then something happens and Freddy ends up being lynched by an angry mob of parents with molotov cocktails....Thirteen years later Freddy returns to visit the same kids in their dreams...now eighteen years of age to get revenge

But the big difference in the movie will be the question of whether Freddy is actually a child molester or a victim of children's lies...was there home abuse being covered up???

I think it sounds quite different and might be good...i'm slightly more upbeat about this project now

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

A new trailer for.......A Nightmare On Elm Street remake

I definitely like the look of it

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