"Nightmare" to be remade

What the FUCK?


[?=Undoubtedly the most utterly needless remake I have seen yet][FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=+1]"Nightmare" to haunt big screen again[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]Tuesday January 29 8:50 PM ET

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[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]Freddy's back. Again.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]New Line is in talks with horror production company Platinum Dunes to re-launch the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie series, the franchise that helped establish the studio.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]The first "Nightmare" movie was made by Wes Craven and released in 1984. The runaway success of the film spawned a slew of sequels and created one of the most popular villains in screen history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund.

[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1] The film centered on Krueger, a serial child killer murdered by angry parents, who returns with a burned face and a razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams.

[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]A screenwriter will be hired once the Writers Guild of America strike ends. The producers -- Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form -- are hoping to focus part of the new movie on Krueger's backstory.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]Platinum Dunes is prepping another re-launch, "Friday the 13th," which will be directed by Marcus Nispel for New Line, for whom it remade "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and its sequel.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]The company is remaking "Near Dark" for Rogue and "The Birds" for Universal. It is also prepping a non-remake project, an untitled David Goyer thriller.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]Reuters/Hollywood Reporter[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Whoosh!

Sounds like the prequel I've heard of for the past few years, rather than a remake.

Old news to people with their ear on the ground for horror.

Not an original thought left in Hollywood.

The original Nightmare on Elm Street is surprisingly scary and creepy. Then in the sequels Freddy was played more for laughs than anything else. Although Dream Warriors is a pretty good flick in it's own right.

No shit. Dream Warriors was the only one of the sequels (not counting WCNN) to be helmed by Craven. And it showed.

C'mon, give it a chance. It will be a gritty reinterpreting of the old films.

Near Dark sure as hell doesn't need a new gritty version, that movie is great just the way it is!

And anyone who dares to re-make The Birds deserves all the derision that they'll so rightly have coming.

Where ever childhood memories remain unraped, Hollywood will be there.

I've only seen one of the Freddie movies "Freddie's Dead." When I was in college, a couple of friends of mine insisted on going and seeing the film. As we were waiting in line to get our tickets, I couldn't help but notice that they were handing out 3-D glasses. I looked at my friends and said, "Uh, guys, I think this is going to suck." They would have none of it, insisting that it still could be good. I pointed out that every movie which resorts to using 3-D in the past 20 years has sucked and sucked hard, but they were optimistic that this would be the exception. It wasn't. I'm just sorry I didn't have more to drink before I saw the film.

So they need the writers back before they can undertake this bold new approach?

I didn't think you needed writers to recycle the same old crap. Hell, they re-did Psycho and used the same frickin' script that the original used! Shot for shot!

Original ideas get kicked aside for guaranteed moneymakers or are so changed that the finish product is cookie cutter while the originial screenplay was something else entirely.

I saw the Rob Zombie remake of Halloween and it was surprisingly good. It fleshed out the background of the story a bit better while maintaining alot of the atmosphere of the original.

I missed Jamie Lee Curtis, though.

I'm aware. It saddens me deeply.

No Robert Englund = No Freddy

IMHO!

A couple of years ago I might disagree with a statement like that. But, when I look at the remakes that are plaguing the sci-fi genre, the Star Trek genre, and now apparently the horror genre, I can't really disagree anymore.

I saw the writing on the wall by the time of the remake of Lost in Space.

But the remake of the Munsters passed by you? The Avengers?

The Avengers and LIS were both 1998 releases.

As for The Munsters, are you referring to The Munsters Today or Munsters Revenge? Those were several years earlier.

... I have no idea. I think it was Here Come the Munsters.

I didn't see reference to no Englund in there.

I've always heard it would have Englund as human Freddy in a prequel styled after the flashback scene at the beginning of Freddy vs Jason.

Aw, man! This is another thread Ted would have loved.

They just have to mess with the classics. Please throw in some CGI and a slammin' hip-hop soundtrack for no apparent reason while you're at it.

Hey! No trolling in Media Central you two!

No more.

Stop luring apostle into threads like this unless it's in the Red Room.

Heather Langenkamp was teh Hawtness!!!

No, seriously!

Ted would have loved it.

And everytime you say that, apostle pops up like a bad case of herpes on a Russian hooker.

Gentlemen, this is Media Central. Rein in that stuff if you would.

Thanks Lanz. Bad enough that I have to put up with the constant trolling of Lost in Space over at TBBS, I expect better from my friends here at WF.

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