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Robert Englund shares how he would like to see the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise revived

It’s been 13 years since we’ve seen a new entry in the A Nightmare on Elm Street horror film franchise, and one day there will be another attempt to revive it. At a certain point, Wes CravenThe estate of has re-gained the rights to the horror franchise and were accepting submissions from people for a new film and/or series.

Robert Englund he’s played Freddy Krueger for years and has his own idea of ​​how to revive the franchise. He thinks that instead of recreating Krueger’s origin story, elements of the second and third films in the franchise could be reimagined in new and interesting ways, offering new perspectives on those stories. She explained in an interview with CB:

“I certainly think they should restart [A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors], because 3 has a sense of “previously in Nightmare on Elm Street”, and brings everyone together, and is a fan favorite. I think if you took a poll or cast a vote, you’d discover more people like Dream Warriors than any other film. And it’s a good script. The original script is great, and if you look at who wrote it, those people have Oscars now. And then I’d like to make a cameo, maybe switch genres and play Priscilla Pointer, the role of Amy Irving’s mother, the skeptical and cynical therapist who doesn’t believe they’re all having a common dream, a common dream, a nightmare, a nightmare collective. I think it would be fun, a nice wink at the audience. It’s tradition in a remake to bring someone back from the original.

“But yeah, it’s hard. I mean, I’d love to see a sensitive, contemporary, independent, Spirit Award-winning filmmaker or someone reboot [Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge] and really explore Freddy’s manipulation of the boy in that and the boy’s burgeoning bisexuality. I think we could do it today. We could go through that and what’s going on there and play with the psychology and manipulation of Freddy and make him really heroic. I think it would be interesting to do that. I think we are ready for this.”

Englund went on to talk about new film technology that could be used today to do things with the franchise that we haven’t seen before saying:

“For me, Nightmare on Elm Street is one of those movies that, indeed, begs for new technology. Dreamscape, mindscape is such a mature place to go with CGI. I think it would be fun, so that would require a bigger budget. Not a Marvel level budget or effects, but I think imaginative… I remember years ago I saw that movie with Robin Williams, What dreams come true, the one where the paintings come to life. That effect done today is probably much more improved and sophisticated, and I think it would be an interesting effect to use as a sequel to a nightmare, dreamscape. But I’m not a fool. I grew up in Hollywood. They do everything again, and they will do it again sometime, and I think one one of the tricks would be to find an actor who can go the distance, play Freddy over and over again.”

Englund would also like to see the film series’ iconography reinvented in more ambitious ways, and he’d like to see the mythology expanded in unexpected ways. He said:

“All people know about Freddy Krueger is that he’s disfigured from burns. He wears a hat. He’s got a red and green sweater and a claw. That’s all they know. They don’t really call him a fedora, I don’t know.” They don’t fit into a great description of the claw or glove or sweater, other than maybe the stripes. Then the sweater could be a cardigan. The hat could be an old, worn-out baseball cap. Claws might have huge blades on them like Wolverine or small sharp nails on them. Could be skin fetish. It could be sadomasochistic bondage. We do not know. Freddy could be taller. Freddy may be older. Freddy may be younger. Freddy might be shorter Freddy might be fat.

“And everyone who has heard the legend, the myth, the whispered story in the locker room or at the sleepover who hears about this Freddy Krueger who killed babies, and ‘my mother heard, and she said, and I heard dad say, and blah, blah, blah.’ Now they’ve heard about it. Now they’re infected, and Freddy is in their subconscious, and when they fall asleep, he can enter them. But they only know those basic facts, so they can imagine a different Freddy. And then we could maybe reveal at the end the super Freddy that controls all these dreams, but it’s their subconscious manipulating the image of Freddy. So you could have half a dozen Freddies, actors playing Freddy, which would be fun, I think.”

Sounds like they might be cool and interesting ideas to play with. I have no idea what will happen with the future of the franchise, but it’s fun and interesting to see what Englund would do if he had a say in how things move forward.

THE Hill House haunting, Doctor SleepAND Midnight snack director Mike Flanagan wanted to make a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie. It’s a film project he’s been dying to pitch, but hasn’t had the opportunity to pitch yet because, apparently, no one knows who he has to meet with to pitch it! Earlier she spoke about his tone saying:

“One of [franchises] A Nightmare on Elm Street has always been on my list. Man, that would be fun. I have a whole idea that I came up with a couple of years ago and my understanding is that the rights situation for that title is so tense, nobody knows who really controls it and nobody knows who to pitch. So, I keep telling my agents, “Send me to Nightmare on Elm Street,” and they say, “We’d love to, [but] we have no idea who you should be talking to.’ And I’ve talked to — I’ve spent almost a year of my life with [A Nightmare on Elm Street star] Heather Langenkamp, ​​and we would talk about it. It’s like nobody knows what to do.”

Right now, we don’t know exactly where the rights to the franchise currently lie, which is why Flanagan is having a huge problem trying to pitch his movie! Flanagan added, “If you had to do it that would be great.” One day things will work out, though, and when it does I hope Flanagan is the one to revive it.

Robert Englund is the subject of an upcoming documentary titled Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story and will arrive on Screambox and Digital HD on June 6th.

by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant

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