Watchman cast as Krueger

Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen (2009)Variety reports that actor Jackie Earle Haley – most recently seen as Rorschach in WATCHMEN – has been cast to play Freddy Krueger in New Line Cinema’s upcoming remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, which is to be produced in conjunction with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. The film will be directed by Samuel Bayer, working from a script by Wesley Strick (who wrote Martin Scorsese’s remake of CAPE FEAR). Shooting starts in Chicago next month.

New Line and Platinum Dunes recently collaborated on the remake of FRIDAY THE 13TH, another film that relaunched an ’80s horror icon.

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Steve Biodrowski

Cinefantastique's Los Angeles Correspondent from 1987 to 1993 and West Coast Editor from 1993 to 1999. Currently the webmaster of Cinefantastique Online, I also run a website called Hollywood Gothique that covers Halloween Horror and Sci-Fi Cinema Events in the Los Angeles area.

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