I suppose this was inevitable. I'm not in the habit of getting riled up about remakes but I will say this... Ben Foster would make a GREAT Freddy Kreuger.
(Ben Foster played Angel in the last X-Men movie but I've been a fan since the teen romance comedy Get Over It from 2001. His psycho side can be seen in the recent 3:10 to Yuma; of which I thought he was the best part.)
New Line is making a deal with Platinum Dunes (the folks behind THE HITCHER, TEXAS CHAINSAW and the in-development FRIDAY THE 13TH remake) to remake A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. No writer is attached (and there won't be until after the strike) and no director is attached.
I will have a zero-tolerance for modern horror gimmicks (what Vern would call "avid farts") or cheap scares with this one. I don't care how shitty FREDDY'S DEAD was, if you're going to remake this movie you're playing with one of the best examples of horror in the last 30 years.
Much like with the FRIDAY remake, I don't understand why it's so hard to make a sequel or a relaunch that takes place within this established universe. Maybe that's the idea with the remake, I don't know, but I'm not really happy about this.
Are they going to recast Freddy? I can't imagine a Freddy without Robert Englund (although my buddy Kraken has been telling me for a year that whenever they decide to remake NIGHTMARE they should cast Ben Foster as Freddy and he's surprisingly fitting when you look at him with that in mind), so hopefully they don't do something as stupid as making a Freddy movie without Freddy Krueger.
And hopefully they don't treat the teenagers like retarded CLUELESS rejects (hello HALLOWEEN remake). And who can they get to be as badass as John Saxon?
I don't know. The original was so inventive, the remake is going to have to be just as inventive, but not a copy. It'll take a really interesting screenwriter and director for me to shake this bad feeling. You?
"Freddy's coming for you, again"
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I suppose this was inevitable. I'm not in the habit of getting riled up about remakes but I will say this... Ben Foster would make a GREAT Freddy Kreuger.
(Ben Foster played Angel in the last X-Men movie but I've been a fan since the teen romance comedy Get Over It from 2001. His psycho side can be seen in the recent 3:10 to Yuma; of which I thought he was the best part.)
January 31, 2008 1:01 AM