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Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
I agree Axlin08, some things you don't fuck with. Perkins, Pleasance and Englund are in that group.
Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
Thanks to Bloody-Disgusting, we now have the official casting call for the upcoming "Nightmare on Elm Street" reboot, including a description of the Freddy Krueger role. This also confirms that Platinum Dunes has yet to find an actor for the lead role.
* FREDDY KRUEGER: (40s) The fedora-wearing villain of children's nightmares. He's taunting and vindictive. He's the last person you want to see in your dreams.
* KRIS: 18, attractive, hot, sexy and confident. She's smart and curious. She's also the type of girl who has to figure things out when they don't make sense.
* QUENTIN: (18) Mysterious, smart and cool. Think indie type guy. He runs the school podcast, "Insomnia Radio." Think Johnny Depp.
* NANCY: (18) Attractive, interesting, and intriguing. Very smart. Not terribly social. There's one in every class. The pretty-girl image is not her priority. Getting out of town after graduation is.
* DEAN: (18) He's the school jock. Attractive. He's the kid that lives in the two-story home on the street that screams "Rich Suburbia." He's the guy that everyone seems to love.
* JESSE: (18) – Alpha male. Cool, attractive. He used to date Kris, and he's still trying to get back together – even though they've broken up about 4 times already.
The new movie will be directed by Samuel Bayer and is written by Wesley Strick. Shooting officially begins on April 27th in Chicago, IL.
Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
The problem is original thought doesn't sell tickets anymore.
Hollywood has begun to see over the year that sequels, and franchising brand names equal big box office, even for awful and cheap films too.
Just the way it is. In a weird way, the film business has become a bit like the TV business. They stick with tried and true, long-running TV shows (film franchises), instead of trying to build new and inventive ones.
Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
The problem is original thought doesn't sell tickets anymore.
Hollywood has begun to see over the year that sequels, and franchising brand names equal big box office, even for awful and cheap films too.
Just the way it is. In a weird way, the film business has become a bit like the TV business. They stick with tried and true, long-running TV shows (film franchises), instead of trying to build new and inventive ones.
It sucks for those of us who aren't mindless zombies eating whatever they throw at us. I would actually prefer some creativity and originality over seeing Mike Myers, Jason or Freddy brought back to life. If I want to watch any of those franchises, I'm pretty sure they're on DVD. 
I guess I can't complain too much since I saw both Halloween and F13 in theaters. I'm contributing to it as well.
Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
The best chance Hollywood had to reinvent the slasher genre for a new generation was in the late 90's with films like "Scream" & "I Know What You Did Last Summer" which were immensly popular.
But it died REAL quick, when Hollywood far too quickly made it very commercial and campy, right out of the gate. "I Still Know..." was the Freddy's Revenge of it's era. Suffered from commercialism and being rushed. And "Scream 2" proved Wes Craven should never be let within 2,000 miles of a sequel. The man has NO CLUE how to do it.
When these new era characters flatlined after a few years, Hollywood reverted back to tried and true. Only two years after "Scream 3", you had films like "Halloween: Resurrection", "Hellraiser V & VI", "Jason X", and "Freddy vs. Jason" & "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003" in pre-production.
There will never be another shot imo to bring new slashers to the fore front. They'll just reboot old characters, like they've done successfully.
The real key to new era horror will be marketing new GENRES, not more slashers to the slasher club. Saw invented the torture porn genre, which has proven itself very viable.
I personally would love to see big budget, but artistically-minded reboots of "Hellraiser" & "Phantasm". I really think it could create it's own genre the - fantasy horror - genre, which... the sky would be the limit.
Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
New strides in the slasher subgenre are being made constantly, just not within the US film industry. Look at Alex Aja's Haute tension as the most obvious reference point. And while I'm not a Scream fan, Craven did co-pen one of the most effective Nightmare sequels (Dream Warriors) as well as the pre-Scream brilliance of New Nightmare.
Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
Wrote Dream Warriors. Not direct. And the brilliance of New Nightmare is debatable.
As for the slasher subgenre, strides might be being made, but real box office and cultural significance hasn't really surfaced since the birth & death of the "new era" slashers of the late 90s.
I thought Scream was flat out brilliant. I'll give all the props in the world to Craven on that. It's a modern classic, and to take the slasher genre and to actually make it significant within the film, to real life films, was the full effect of Craven's idea, but mediocre execution, with New Nightmare, was fully materialized with Scream.
I thought to take rules and play them towards the slasher going audience, as well as trivia from previous slasher franchises really brought it into the future, while paying respect to the old.
But Scream worked as a one-off film. When they tried to give it sequels, was when it went all wrong.
Re: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Introducing the New Freddy Krueger
As I said, "Craven did co-pen [Dream Warriors]." Scream never really did it for me. It's just a pop retread of New Nightmare without the panache. Slashers never laid claim to any real box office or cultural significance, be it the early '80s or late '90s. It's always been a marginal subgenre at best. While the rare exception like Scream was able to generate broad appeal, those instances have been few and far between. There were Scream knockoffs that attempted the same success and failed. Once producers saw a self-effacing horror movie could play well to an MTV audience, they ran with it. I wouldn't say it defined an era.
