New Line has taken a step forward in bringing Freddy back to the big screen. The Warner Bros. division has hired veteran scribe Wesley Strick to pen the relaunch of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series, the franchise that helped establish New Line into a movie player in the mid-1980s.
The original Nightmare was written and directed by Wes Craven and released in 1984. It created one of the most popular villains in screen history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund, and its runaway success spawned a slew of sequels. The films’ premise centered on Krueger, a serial child killer murdered who returns with a burned face and razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams.
The new project will keep the high school setting and delve deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Krueger himself. The plan is to have a dark tone. The company hopes to have the movie ready for the 25th anniversary of the original. Strick most famously penned Arachnophobia and Cape Fear and worked on Mission: Impossible II, among other films. Quite frankly I think it’s a film ripe for a remake and has the potential to be very creepy. Alot will hinge upon the casting of the new Freddy but my vote is for Ben Foster of 30 Day’s Of Night and 3: 10 To Yuma to play him…anyone else got any ideas?
