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Dave Davis - from JoBlo
"So we know that Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company has plans to remake Wes Craven's horror classic A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The entire movie would get the facelift that an appropriate budget would provide, including a new dream-dwelling mass murderer. But who could possibly replace Robert Englund as the iconic rake-handed Freddy Krueger?

How about Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton? It's just a rumor at this point -- but it was initiated by the original Freddy himself. Robert Englund was on the late night radio show Loveline last week to promote JACK BROOKS, MONSTER SLAYER (and discuss sex, I guess), and was inevitably asked about the NIGHTMARE reboot. And Englund stated that the last gossip he heard was that Thornton could be slipping on the sweater and burn makeup for the role.

Englund also claims he's not opposed to being replaced (as he says, he already made the movie), or the remake itself, since he feels it's the sort of movie that deserves a bigger budget for the dreamscape special effects (they ran out of money while making the first movie).

Thornton seems like the kind of dude who's receptive to any sort of material, and he does have an existing Bay connection from ARMAGEDDON. Food for thought (or nightmares)!

Thanks to 'Blake' for the tip!"



So this could be interesting. I hate Michael Bay for his lack of talent, but I think a BIG budget Freddy remake might be kinda neat, even if it is terrible. In another discussion on the "Billy Bob Kruger" thing someone mentioned Crispin Glover as a personal choice for a Robert Englund replacement. I have to say, I think Glover would be incredibly creepy as Freddy!

anyways. discuss.

Not sure about this . ..

I doubt it, it does say that Englund is prone to make up things that he would like to happen...

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Great rumor. However I doubt it is even true. Robert Englund should return as Freddy for reboot.

dear god no

**** remakes and **** everyone who's involved with them.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, but yes anything Bay is involved with when it comes to remakes should be banned.

More remakes? No thank you...

It's not like nightmare on elm street is a sacred or perfect piece of cinema. Out of all of the Elmstreet movie's the original is the one which has weathered the storm of time best. Although, it still holds up today i think the story could definitely benefit from a remake or reboot. It would be nice to see an Elmstreet movie with decent acting. Bay wouldn't be on my list of possible directors, but i certainly wouldn't mind seeing him on the project as a producer.

Apparantly Robert England thinks billy bob could pull it off


and as for the people who are all opposed to remakes not every single one of them have been bad there has been some good ones.

Definitely, The Hills Have Eyes was fantastic, better than the original.

Bay produced remakes are never good, that's why I don't have high hopes for an Elm Street remake...

Im not against redoing Elm Street, as long as

A) its way creepy and sadistically brutal and gorey. chill on the humour, as much as i love it, and focuss on scaring me. (I was a huge fan of Wes Craven's New Nightmare).

B) Michael Bay has NOTHING to do with it. god what a douche.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
It's not like nightmare on elm street is a sacred or perfect piece of cinema. Out of all of the Elmstreet movie's the original is the one which has weathered the storm of time best. Although, it still holds up today i think the story could definitely benefit from a remake or reboot. It would be nice to see an Elmstreet movie with decent acting. Bay wouldn't be on my list of possible directors, but i certainly wouldn't mind seeing him on the project as a producer.

But must we remake EVERY slasher/horror film? I mean, here's just a small list of all the horror films that have been/will be remade already:

Halloween
Carrie
Hills Have Eyes
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Friday the 13th (it's coming)
Children of the Corn (it's coming)
Nightmare on Elms Street (it's coming)
Child's Play (it's coming)

Is that the new trend? Remake old slasher and horror films just to cater to the modern teenage audience? What happened to creativity?

Still get original horror films out, just remakes are in a realm of their own at the moment. Remakes have been going since more or less film started, but it's at an insane peak now.

A Nightmare on Elm St. is my favorite horror film of all time............and I'm all for the remake. It's not like the original is going to disappear from my dvd collection. The movie does have piss poor acting and could use a re-imagining.

I'm all for Billy Bob as Fred. he's one of the few actors I think could pull it off. Most of the Krueger acting in the film is done with his body.......and Billy Bob has the same build to emulate Englund. He also knows how to use his frame to build a character, Slingblade is a perfect example.

Originally posted by Bat Dude
But must we remake EVERY slasher/horror film? I mean, here's just a small list of all the horror films that have been/will be remade already:

Halloween
Carrie
Hills Have Eyes
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Friday the 13th (it's coming)
Children of the Corn (it's coming)
Nightmare on Elms Street (it's coming)
Child's Play (it's coming)

Is that the new trend? Remake old slasher and horror films just to cater to the modern teenage audience? What happened to creativity?

are they REMAKING childs play? or just doing another in the series. it hasnt been very long since the last one.

its just about the ****ing money taken from the **** who go to see these remakes
my workmates didnt even know there was an original Dawn Of The Dead(in my opinion the only decent remake of the lot) OR Wickerman even after seeing the remakes
these shitty remakes come and go without any lasting impression whilst the originals remain as iconic as ever
the re jigs of Wickerman,the Omen,Halloween,prom Night etc thus far have been totally ****ing pointless,forgettable wastes of 90 mins the lot of em
i think its bad enough doing remakes of classic horror pics but when your messing about with a character with an actor who is pretty much synominous(?) with the part youre onto a bad start
sure weve had dif Jasons and Leatherfaces but nobody but Englund is Freddy

Originally posted by vintageSW77
its just about the ****ing money taken from the **** who go to see these remakes.

QFT.

on the subject of remakes while there not as good as the original, i do believe that Dawn of the Dead was a good remake.

Originally posted by vintageSW77
but when your messing about with a character with an actor who is pretty much synominous(?) with the part youre onto a bad start
sure weve had dif Jasons and Leatherfaces but nobody but Englund is Freddy

As much as your totally against it Englund has giving his seal of approval

not like this is the first time it has happen, Bela lugosi as dracula anyone ???

and look who came along and did his own thing with dracula... christopher Lee.

yip i get you
personally as a kid i always saw Dracula as an individual character away from any actors portrayal
but Kruger is fairly unique apart from a couple of other characters out there who i couldnt imagine seeing another actor play
its like someone else playing Indy or Luke Skywalker
i wasnt around when Lugosi played Dracula or when Lee took over as the new Drac but i was around when Krugermania hit and the guy made Kruger the icon he is today

maybe heres the difference...most of the people going to see this movie wont give a toss who plays FK as long as its full of the old guttywutts
the modern movie goer doesnt give a shit as long as they get the bangs and the obligitory hip hop track accompanying the way to the exit sign en route for the post movie meal
good luck to whoever gets the part but ill bet the movie is another stinker soon to be gathering dust at Blockbuster next to The Hitcher and Omen remakes
i met Englund this year and he told me when i asked about someone taking over the role ...
he said this - "there is only one Freddy Kruger..............and ITS ME!!!"

What was the remakes take money from the **** about?!

i don't mind if money grubbing assholes with no ideas to speak of want to remake classic movies that rocked really hard.

as long as it doesnt go to some idiot like micheal bay.

In my opinion I think many directors and so forth are leaning into remaking old horror films because they're not getting the same response to many of the horror films out today and believe bringing back all time favorites will give them what they've been waiting for want.

I just thought of something. Nightmare on Elm Street, being from the 80s, did have some good effects and that's probably where they began to build even better special effects from.

But I don't know, I guess I'm a little curious to see what they can pull off.

Nightmare on elm street would look good with what they can do with CGI these days for the dreamworld side of things many possibilitys for it

As long as its sort of scary and not just funny when it came to the kills like what happen to the last few nightmare films(excluding Wes Craven's New Nightmare • Freddy vs. Jason)

Originally posted by MildPossession
What was the remakes take money from the **** about?!

through experiance it seems there are a whole lot of people out there who go to see a flick for a night out..something to do
they will go to see anything regardless of bad word of mouth,spot on negative reviews etc and put it at the top spot
hence the fact weve had some ropey films at number 1 this year
these are the people on the whole who would find the originals of the remakes a hard slog and dont give a hoot about originality or storytelling
its all about the explosions and the gore for them
you see them in the cinema chatting or getting restless when the action subsides and the "talky" bit starts
i work with these people and these are on the whole the types who go to see The Hitcher,Wickerman and put money in the pockets of the tossers who make the remakes
they are the "t1ts" im refering to
sure some of the younger horror fans amongst us enjoy them
well shame on you ya little t1ts!

I don't care how many teenagers go see a remake not knowing that it's a remake. The more the better. I can make them look like the assholes they are if one of these shits ever decided to engage me in conversation.

Hollywood remakes old horror movies because horror is hot. It's an automatic payday. I'd rather see a halfway entertaining re-make than a shitfest like Pulse or White Noise. Like I said before, so it's not as good as the original........okay, I had fun watching it once but I've still got the OG in my dvd collection to watch at my leisure.

Since the original film is still there, I see no harm.......only good can come of it. Perhaps they might make a good movie, one to rival or better the original. I'll state flat out that I enjoy the NoTLD remake more than the original. I know it's classic but hey........if I'm going to watch NoTLD, I pop in Savini's remake.

Ahh okay Vintage, just thought you were lumping everyone who sees remakes as shits. Because that would include me, and people like you who actually bought The Omen on dvd or whatever rubbish remakes you bought lol...

Originally posted by MildPossession
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, but yes anything Bay is involved with when it comes to remakes should be banned.

MildPossession for Prime Minister...!!!!

Indeed, second woman prime minister, so more special!! Oh and I love your sig pic, but the dog one is scary...

Bay is all about action and not character driven plots.

Really?

Originally posted by MildPossession
Ahh okay Vintage, just thought you were lumping everyone who sees remakes as shits. Because that would include me, and people like you who actually bought The Omen on dvd or whatever rubbish remakes you bought lol...

ok guilty
but i did buy The Omen because David Thewliss was in it ,i dont buy pirates,im banned from the local Blockbuster,had a spare £4 and it was CHEAP!
funnily enough i now have this movie twice due to its inclusion in the box set of The Omen flicks i picked up for £7 at HMV

Originally posted by Endrict Nuul
Bay is all about action and not character driven plots.

Or any kind of plots.

i'm not a fan of remakes, but i would love to see a Leprechuan remake. Someone that actually knows how to direct a movie, and with some good acting. And a better plot of course lol

the Leprechaun monster could have been a big success

Looks like Michael Bay doesn't have his hands on the remake, thankfully.

Having a good laugh about all of the rumors surrounding Warner Bros.' relaunch of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, Wes Craven told a crowd at Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear last weekend another pivotal figure in Freddy Krueger's long legacy. "I know very little about it," Craven said. "My agent and I had lunch with Bob Shaye about five days ago. But as might you know New Line Cinema has been shut down by Warner Bros. who owns it and all of their properties have been subsumed by Warner Bros. Bob didn't know any more about it than I did. I certainly have no control over that property." He also made it sound like Platinum Dunes is drifting further away from the project. "For a while there it seemed Michael Bay's company was going to do it, but I believe that's no longer the case.

Thank you. I don't think this remake will be any good in the first place, but if Michael Bay was attached to it, then I KNOW it would suck balls. At least now it has a slim chance of being good.

omg.

not this shit again. halloween remake sucked and now this.

Yep. Rob Zombie screwed that movie up good.

Originally posted by celestialdemon
Yep. Rob Zombie screwed that movie up good.





i say we get a potition going to have hollywood stop remaking movies and ruining them

The Halloween remake was just terrible, one of the worst horror movies to come out. Only decent thing was McDowell in the role of Loomis.

Forget that, recast Robert E. No one can ever successfully replace Freddy Kruger, in my eyes. Robert has this exclusive/unique way of moving and crouching and crawling and convulsing as Freddy that cannot be copied naturally. I do not see Billy Bob pulling it off or anyone else for that matter, and if C. Glover were to be cast he should play a young Freddy before he got burned, but that's it cause Rob's probably too old now to look young. (Unless they use really good touch-up make-up or cgi on his face.)

But yea Freddy's disposition was what always got me. They way he would stand crookedly, whether it was behind a steaming pipe or morphing out of a wall, or how he would run after you while crouched, or how he would smille/giggle/cackle, while approaching you by walking towards you with his claws pointed towards you with his whole body twitching due to his giggle reaction, preparing to chase you.

Can you picture Billy Bob chasing you like that? I'd roundhouse kick him, haha.

I'm through dreading remakes to be honest. They just create dumb teenagers who think they know horror.

The first ANOES is fine as is and still holds its ground. It wasn't perfect but I doubt a remake will do it justice.

That said, I doubt Thornton will do this. He's a big name actor. No one will cast him to wear a mask the entire movie.

When FvJ came out, I thought Zack Ward (the dead brother in the bathtub) would be a fine choice for a remake.

And to Mr. Englund, all I care about now is where the 2001 Maniacs sequel is.

His name(bath tub guy) was going around some time ago for a new Kruger, same for Ben Foster, think that is his name.

More on the remake

Platinum Dunes is going to continue its working relationship with Warner Bros. and New Line for A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Since Comic-Con in July, it was unknown whether producers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form were going to be involved in the reboot of the Freddy Krueger franchise. But today, Fuller and Form confirmed that their deal is done. "It's our next movie," confirmed Form, "hopefully shooting this spring."

Over the summer, Wesley Strick (CAPE FEAR) was attached to pen the script which is intended to re-imagine the dream-hopping teen killer. "It's like what we're doing to FRIDAY THE 13TH," says Fuller. "It's not Freddy cracking jokes. We want to make a horrifying movie. The concept is so scary, don't fall asleep or you'll die. This guy gets you when you're most vulnerable, in your sleep. We love that. That's the basis of the movie. It'll be most similar to the first one but in terms of kills and dreams we'll borrow from the entire series."

Fuller adds that Warner Bros.' positive response to FRIDAY THE 13TH was very helpful in getting Nightmare off the ground. Test screenings for Jason Voorhees' latest outing have been great. Addressing the great, incessant question: Will Robert Englund be back? Fuller and Form say they're seeking someone new to don the hat and red 'n green sweater, but they're hopeful Englund will be back for a part in the film.

I smell shit.