New Nightmare for Freddy
Posted by Steve Biodrowski on 29 Jan 2008 at 05:37 pm | Tagged as: News & Views, Movies
Freddy Kruger is coming back to haunt your dreams again.
Variety reports that Platinum Dunes - the company behind such abysmal remakes as last year’s THE HITCHER - has been hired to relaunch New Line’s NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise. No details are available; a writer cannot be hired until the current strike ends.
Meanwhile, Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form are prepping a remake of FRIDAY THE 13TH for a May start, with Marcus Nispel directing from a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Freddy’s last appearance was in FREDDY VS. JASON, which was written by Shannon and Swift.
Other Platinum Dune remakes in development include NEAR DARK, to be helmed by Samuel Bayer, and THE BIRDS, in which Naomi Watts will star for director Martin Campbell. The company is also planning an exorcism thriller for director David Goyer.
Yet more unnecessary remakes. To anyone on this board who doesn’t believe in them, remember — don’t support them at the box office.
[…] as Freddy Kruger in the Platinum Dunes remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (which we mentioned in this post). Of course, this does not alter the fact that there is no need for a remake of A NIGHTMARE ON […]