It was with great sadness that we had to report the passing of Wes Craven a couple of weeks ago. Shortly after the legendary, genre-defining director’s death, it was announced that there will be a new reboot of the Nightmare On Elm Street series.
‘Nightmare,’ which is arguably Craven’s greatest legacy, has of course been remake before a few years back with an absolutely terrible Platinum Dunes version. Well, now Freddy Kruger himself, Robert England, has chimed in with his opinion of what should happen with a new movie, and it seems that a redo of the third film in the series, A Nightmare On Elm Street: Dream Warriors, could be in the works.
This comes via Red Carpet TV News.
Well, I left America before this really sort of hit the tweets, and my only knowledge or gossip is that apparently they approached Tuesday Knight – she’s the young actress from Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4, who replaced Patricia Arquette. I was trying to think ‘what does that mean?’ They can’t possibly be remaking Nightmare on Elm Street Part 1 again – they just did that. I think they may be remaking Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3.
This is all speculation. Part 3, Dream Warriors, is the most successful film, and the most popular of the franchise. And it would make sense for them on a kind of Nightmare on Elm Street cinematic pun, to hire Tuesday to play the mother in Part 3, Patricia Arquette’s mother, because that would mean she’s playing her own mother. Obviously Tuesday’s older now, it kind of makes sense. So that’s my theory.
They’re not gonna bring me back for Freddy, but perhaps they would bring me back in a cameo as the elderly dream expert at the local clinic for dream analysis or dream therapy or something like that. Maybe they would be smart or wise enough to capitalize on that.
Chuck Russell directed Dream Warriors, which I kind of remember as being okay in terms of quality compared to the rest of the series. It was released in 1987, though, and my memory isn’t that good. It could be time to revisit. Hit the link for more at Red Carpet TV.
