They have officially finished the remake:
Producer Brad Fuller checked in via Twitter with the news that production on Platinum Dunes reboot of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET has officially wrapped. "Just wrapped- sad. This was a fun movie to make." he remarked to his Twitter followers. Lensing on the film began in early May with shooting locations in and around Chicago, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.
Dunno if this teaser is real.
Originally posted by The Nuul
Dunno if this teaser is real.
the real trailer should be released in a month or so
a few pics...
Originally posted by BruceSkywalkerWow, it looks to me like he's really got Freddy's hunched movements down. Awesome.
a few pics...
http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2009/07/face-of-new-freddy-krueger.html
Apparently this turned out to be a fake.
Originally posted by MildPossessionThat's fake? Good, quite honestly, I didn't like that look very much.
http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2009/07/face-of-new-freddy-krueger.htmlApparently this turned out to be a fake.
French directors comment including this remake:
In an interview for the Wall Street Journal, some French horror directors expressed their feelings about Hollywood and the upcoming remake. "I can only talk for myself, but Hollywood is not much of an attraction for me," FabriceDu Welz (the director THE ORDEAL and VIYAN) says. "I know I wouldn't be happy on a film set having two line producers prodding me like on a commercial."Directors like myself, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, and Pascal Laugier have all been getting sent the same scripts, it's not like Hollywood is interested in us as individual talents," he adds. Mr. Bustillo (co-director of INSIDE) is in total agreement: "We [Julien Maury and I] have an American agent who couldn't understand how we could turn down directing a remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. He felt we were going to earn a lot of money and make a big hit -- why refuse? But for us, the screenplay wasn't any good, and we weren't going to be able to rewrite it. We're not interested in cheating, we want to make films we can be proud of."
Meh, their idea or definition of "not any good" could be multiple things; it could be that they felt it was too similar to the original, it could be that they wanted complete control over it and they didn't get that so they're nitpicking, or it could just be that they're wrong. I'm not putting much stock in that interview just yet.