Nightmare On Elm Street reboot in the works at New Line: Studio discard ‘awful’ 2010 remake and go back to the drawing board for new movie.
Nightmare On Elm Street reboot
New Line Cinema are rebooting one of their longest-running, and most successful movie franchises, A Nightmare On Elm Street. It will be the second time the studio has tried to make good on a reboot after the absolutely dreadful 2010 version with Jackie Earl Haley as Freddy Kruegar.
The Tracking Board are the source behind the news. The site reports:
Plot details are kept under lock and key, though fans can safely assume that the red-and-green sweater/fedora wearing Freddy Krueger will once again be up to his old tricks, ready to terrorize a new group of sleep-deprived youngsters.
TB adds that David Leslie Johnson (Orphan) has been tasked to write a new script. Toby Emmerich, Walter Hamada, and Dave Neustadter will oversea the project at New Line.
The ‘Nightmare On Elm Street‘ movies have grossed a whopping $370 million across nine movies over the years, which is about $640 million adjusted for inflation. That doesn;t include the dire 2010 version, which we’re sure New Line, a division of Warner Bros. will just want to forget about – though it did make $115 million globally off a $35 million budget. Not too shabby. This is probably the reason for the studio wanting to reboot it for potentially multiple sequels in the future.
The franchise still has some juice left in it.
The planned Nightmare On Elm Street reboot currently has no cast, director or actors attached.
Here’s the synopsis for the original, Wes Craven 1984 version with Robert Englund playing the iconic character – who must return, surely for any reboot for it to work. Anyone else’s face in the ‘pizza’ mask just doesn’t look right.
Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Springwood, Ohio, the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams (and thus killed in reality) by Freddy Krueger. The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon, but their parents hold a dark secret from long ago.
Robert Englund
