Samara Weaving wants to fight Freddy Krueger in the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise

Samara weaving (Ready or not, the babysitter) has had a lot of success in the horror genre, and it’s a genre she’d like to continue acting in. A franchise she would love to be a part of is A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, where she would like to compete with Freddy Krueger.

While at SXSW, Collider asked the actress which franchise she’d like to appear in next and her answer was A Nightmare on Elm Street. Safe! I would love to see Weaving fight Freddy Krueger!

Wes CravenThe horror classic celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and it’s been fourteen years since the release of the last Elm Street film, the disappointing 2010 remake.

Over the years there has been talk of reviving the franchise and many directors have said they would like to try. But, at the moment, there is nothing in development that we are aware of. Some of the directors who have expressed interest include Rob Selvaggio (The boogeyman) AND Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass).

Savage said: “The one that comes to mind right away is Nightmare on Elm Street. I’m sure that’s for most horror directors. I know there’s a bit of a rights issue there, so I don’t know if Nightmare on Elm Street.” Street will continue soon. That kind of horror storytelling that takes place in that surreal dream space. It terrified me as a child and I never saw anything that came close to that space of not being able to do it. trust what you can see and that space between waking and dreams. I love it as a sandbox to play in and it’s up there with my favorite franchises.”

Flanagan shared: “One of the [franchises] A Nightmare on Elm Street has always been on my list. Man, that would be fun. I have a complete vision of what I developed a couple of years ago and from what I understand the rights situation for that title is so difficult, nobody knows who really controls it and nobody knows who to propose. So I keep telling my agents, “Send me Nightmare on Elm Street,” and they say, “We’d love to, [but] we have no idea who you should talk to.’ And I talked to… who I spent almost a year of my life with [A Nightmare on Elm Street star] Heather Langenkamp, ​​​​and we would like to talk about it. It’s like no one knows what to do.”

Then there are the actor and the producer Elijah Woodthat he would also like to develop an Elm Street film, saying, “We, personally, have talked a lot, internally, about Elm Street and how amazing it would be to play in that universe again and see that universe, see Freddy [Krueger] and that very concept needs to be explored again. This is something that fascinates us. Obviously, it’s not a lesser known, smaller thing that should be made into a bigger thing. But there’s another one that I think is exciting, I know there’s already a remake coming out, but we still really love Children of the Corn. I think that would be an exciting thing… starting from scratch, taking it from the novel, not remaking the film, but actually taking the story and fleshing it out in an interesting way.”

Then there is the original star Heather Langenkamp, who would be interested in reprising her role as Nancy. A couple of years ago she said, “If Nancy could fight Freddy one last time, I would really like her. Man, I’d love to see a future in this.

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

“I certainly think they should reboot [A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors], because 3 means “previously on Nightmare on Elm Street,” and it brings everyone together, and it’s a fan favorite. I think if you did a poll or a vote, you would find more people like Dream Warriors than any other movie. And it’s a good script. The original screenplay is fantastic, and if you look at who wrote it, those people have Oscars now. And then I’d like to do a cameo, maybe change sex and play Priscilla Pointer, the role of Amy Irving’s mother, the skeptical and cynical therapist who doesn’t believe that everyone has a common dream, a common dream, a nightmare, a collective nightmare . I think it would be fun, winking at the audience. It’s tradition in a remake to bring back someone from the original.

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

Englund went on to talk about new filmmaking technology that could be used today to do things with the franchise that we’ve never seen before, saying:

“For me, Nightmare on Elm Street is one of those movies that, in fact, requires new technology. The dreamscape, the mindscape is such a ripe place to go with CGI. I think it would be fun, so that would require a bigger budget. Not in terms of budget or Marvel effects, but I think they’re imaginative… I remember years ago I saw that film with Robin Williams, What Dreams May Come, the one where the paintings come to life. That effect made today it’s probably much more enhanced and sophisticated, and I think it would be an interesting effect to use as a transition to a nightmare, to the dreamscape. But I’m not stupid. I grew up in Hollywood. They redo everything, and sooner or later they will redo it, and I think 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 reimagined 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 has a red and green sweater and a claw. That’s all they know. They don’t really call him Fedora, I don’t know.” “Don’t think. They don’t go into much of a description of the claw, glove, or sweater, other than maybe the stripes. So the sweater might be a cardigan. The hat might be a ragged old baseball hat. The claws might have huge blades on them like Wolverine or little sharp nails on them. Could be leather fetish. Could be S&M bondage. We don’t know. Freddy could be taller. Freddy could be older. Freddy could be younger. Freddy could be shorter, Freddy might be fat.

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

The Wes Craven Estate is currently in charge of the rights to the Elm Street franchise, but we have no idea what their plans are with them. What would you like to see from the future of A Nightmare on Elm Street franchising?