Nightmare on Elm Street gets remade....again

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3356108/a-nightmare-elm-street-remake-again/

So remaking it once wasn't enough for Hollywood then.

... Okay, I admit, this might be the first reboot in the year to actually surprise me. I don't know how to feel about it, to be honest. At least it won't be Micheal Bay this time, I guess?

I don't have any disdain for remakes, but I thought the last film was terrible. I'm glad none of the same producers appear to be involved with this new film.

I still kinda hope they keep the same main actor though. He was one of the few good things in the first remake.

Make it Freddy vs Freddy and have Englund-Kruger square off against Rorscharch-Kruguer.

Haley was fine. I wouldn't mind seeing him return. Just change pretty much everything else.

My point exactly. Poor guy would deserve a second chance in a better movie.

There's only ever going to be one Freddy, and that's Robert Englund.

Well issue is, actors get old and Englund would never have been able to play the character for ever. If they are going to make more movies a replacement is required. Of course they could also stop making movies, but clearly that's not an option for them.

I love Robert Englund, but I can accept that Freddy is a phenomenon that will probably outlive him.

I remember when he was for being replaced because of his arthritis. The consummate professional.

Thing is, what makes a replacement actor work is when the actor decides to make his own take on the character and try something new and interesting rather than just emulate his predecessor. And Haley did just the former, while the rest of the movie (poorly) did the latter. Hence why I see the guy as the saving grace of this movie.

edited 5th Aug '15 6:19:56 PM by Theokal3

At this point they might as well make a dark horror comedy about an aging Freddy played by Englund killing off Hollywood producers trying to remake Nightmare on Elm Street with a subplot of him stalking Jackie Earl Haley (himself busy dreaming about starring in a Rorschach sitcom and beating kids as an adult version of his Bad News Bears character) who keeps just barely surviving his attempts to murder him.

Decent chance it'd be better than whatever dubious remake they toss at us.

I wouldn't mind Freddy vs Jason 2.

Which comes out first - the remake of the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street or the reboot of the reboot of Spider-Man?

The remake of the reboot of the retooling of Friday the Thirteenth of course.

I would unironically watch this film.

I hope they at least have the decency to call it something else than just "A Nightmare on Elm Street".

How about "Two Nightmares on Elm Street" ? :p

edited 7th Aug '15 11:40:55 AM by Theokal3

"A Dream on Elm Street" and it is about Freddy's journey for redemption to reconcile with his daughter. Starring Daniel Day Lewis as Freddy Kruguer...

Make it a crossover with Inception. South Park got the right idea for having Freddy enter the episode to save the characters asses in the end.

Since dreams and nightmares are the core theme of the film series, I suppose that they should be taken to their extremes; I'm all up for a trippy and surreal Elm Street.

I'm just worried that Freddy is turned into a sympathetic character, the fact that he's such an unapologizing asshole is what makes him a great villain.

Yes. Just as long as he doesn't make too many bad jokes.

You shouldn't worry, I doubt they'd do that in a slasher movie. I mean seriously, if anything the last remake made him even more of an asshole than he already was.

True, but after going so far with Freddy's characterization in the remake, there's always a chance that they'll be scaling back to bring in something different.

... True. But seriously, the guy has child killer/molester as his core concept. Nobody in his right mind would try to present that kind of individual as sympathetic. Jason, I could buy because of the tragic backstory and the manchild thing, but Freddy... no, that'd just be wrong.