‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Getting Another Remake – The Daily Double Talk
By Tommy McGrew
Really New Line Cinema? Like…for realzies? We literally just had an A Nightmare on Elm Street remake like five years ago, but apparently they want you to forget tthat shit was ever made. That’s right the good people over at New Line Cinema (or Warner Bros. if you wanna get technical), decided they are going to give remaking the horror classic the old college try…again. It seems as if studios are wasting no time remaking or rebooting properties. It took Sony only five years to reboot Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man and took 20th Century Fox eight years for the Fantastic Four reboot. So it’s not that out of the ordinary but what is a little odd is the fact that the 2010 Nightmare on Elm Street wasn’t exactly a failure. I mean not to say the movie is good or worthy of calling itself a Nightmare on Elm Street movie or anything but from a finacial standpoint the film brought in over $115 million worldwide on a $35 million budget. Those aren’t bad numbers, so why is it New Line is so eager to redo this shit yet again? From what I can gather it actually sounds like a major studio wants to remake a film not only for money but because they actually want to get the property right. Yeah, I know shocked the hell outta me too. The studio has been making moves that seem to prove my therory right. They cut ties with Michael Bay’s Platnium Dunes, who was behind the 2010 remake, for the upcoming version. It seems they want to go back the things that made the original so special, mainly Robert Englund’s smug, witty, asshole Freddy Kruger instead of Jackie Earle Haley’s quiet, malevolent boogie-man Freddy, who was repackaged for the remake.
The New, New Nightmare on Elm Street is already assembling it’s team in place with Toby Emmerich, Walter Hamada, and Dave Neustadter looking over the project David Leslie Johnson (The Walking Dead) is set to write. The film is set to come out sometime in 2018
[Source: Gizmoburn.com]