In 2010 New Line Cinema will be releasing A Nightmare on Elm Street, a remake of Wes Cravens' hit 1984 movie. I don’t know about you, but I don’t get why they are rebooting all the slasher franchises. These movies don’t need a rebooting, they need to be taken seriously. To have Toby Hooper make a big budget remake of his own movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, was unnecessary; just have him make a new installment. We know their histories- just give us good movies. Wes Craven who has given his blessing on three remakes of his early low budget movies (The Hills Have Eyes, The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Last House on the Left) is as displeased with the idea of A Nightmare on Elm Street remake as I am. Why restart something that has more than 20 years of history and such a colorful character brought to life by Robert Englund?
Englund who has reprised the Freddy Krueger role 9 times in movies and TV; his last being the 2003 highly anticipated Freddy VS. Jason, where he showed he still has the chops to play the sadistic dream demon.
Unlike Jason and Michael Myers who are monsters that show no emotion and have no dialogue, Freddy Krueger is all dialogue and emotion. Finding someone new to bring Freddy’s personality (which is what really makes the Nightmare On Elm Street series worth watching) to the big screen is really important. Thank God they didn’t hire Harland Williams to play the Dream Master, but instead the man who in 2009 showed what it takes to be a super hero in the movie Watchmen.
Jackie Earle Haley became the twisted hero Rorschach- let’s hope he can bring half of that intensity to Freddy Krueger
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