Another Nightmare on Elm Street reboot reportedly in the works

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I kind of liked the last one.


It’s only been five years since New Line and Platinum
Dunes tried their hand at remaking Wes Craven ‘s
classic horror flick A Nightmare on Elm Street , the film
that brought the taunting slasher Freddy Krueger into
all our nightmares. But in Hollywood years, that’s a
lifetime, so it’s time for another reboot .
A new reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street is in the
works at New Line Cinema again, and this one will
ignore the 2010 reboot that starred Jackie Earle Haley
as Freddy Krueger. Find out who will be writing the
script for the A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot after the
jump!
The Tracking Board reports it will be Orphan scribe
David Leslie Johnson writing the script this time, but
there’s no director or producers on board the project
as of yet. So far only New Line’s Toby Emmerich,
Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter are overseeing
for the studio, so the project is still pretty early in
development.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of several horror
franchises that, much like the character who haunts
endless dreams, just won’t die. Freddy Krueger
(originally played by Robert Englund) stands with
Michael Myers from Halloween and Jason Voorhees
from Friday the 13th as a horror icon, but just like those
other two seemingly immortal killers, they’ve also worn
out their welcome from time to time.
Krueger has always been the more playful and silly of
the iconic, recurring slashers, spouting off one-liners
and campy jokes to his victims before he kills them. He
even battled Jason Voorhees in the silly match-up
Freddy vs. Jason in 2003, and has spun off into several
novels, comic books and video games as well.
Though the 2010 reboot has a respectable cast
(including Rooney Mara in the lead) and tried
desperately to remake the film for a new generation, it
just didn’t separate itself enough from the original film
and instead was simply boring, lacking in any true
horror. If anything, it just seemed to take itself far too
seriously. Or maybe we just live in a world where a
killer like Freddy Krueger just doesn’t work anymore.
Though I’m sure someone out there has an idea to
bring Freddy back from the dead.