Warner Bros. just unveiled the teaser trailer for director Samuel Bayer's reboot of
A Nightmare on Elm Street. Watch it now...
A Nightmare on Elm Street! Teaser Trailer |
Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema has hired veteran screenwriter Wesley Strick to pen the relaunch of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series.
The original
Nightmare was written and directed by Wes Craven and released in 1984. The new project will keep the high school setting and delve deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Freddy Krueger himself.
A Nightmare on Elm Street stars Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy and Connie Britton. It comes to theaters April 30, 2010.
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And anyone remaking the Matrix has got to be asking for it. Its like remaking LOTR. IT can't be done.
Also most comments that have gone up since the release of the official trailer above, the fans have slated this one as much better than the official trailer enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxPmOP1_HIY
I agree with newkill 80s horror is still fresh in our mind, while despites the great 30s horror, that we cherish and love, we wouldn't mind seeing a glamorised update to them, because it shows us what they can do now to what they couldn't do then and it modernising it for a new auidence which causes them to see the brilliance of the orignal 30s version.
And well i think with the more older remakes, like Wolfman, they put more passion into it, because they use more veteran film makers that grew up with the classics as well.
Ok here is an interesting discussion, that Brad Fuller never answered, since this ANOES news page is still getting comments i'll repost here.
Why did Platinum Dunes refuse to have Wes Craven on the film as a consultant?
Here is the full story, it be interesting to see people's opinions on this new info i found yesterday...
Its a reply i made to Chad, whom wondered if Platinum Dunes even spoke to Craven about the remake.
yeah they did, he sent them a request to be a consultant on the ANOES remake and they turned him down, this being the main reason apparently why Craven dissaproves of the remake and apparently why England didn't take the cameo role.
According to an intewview with Craven i found he talks about how to him it is a tradition for him to see all the projects that are remakes of his films through pre-production and production phases as a consultant, but he sttes he was majorily dissapointted when Platinum Dunes turned him down and that they didn't come to him but he had to go to them and they still turned him down.
Thus in a further video interview with England on the upcoming remake, he turned down the role of Dr James Britt, because Craven wasn't on the set as a consultant like he usuallly is with the remake projects of his, and stated
"that he wanted to be part of something successful and without Craven on that set, i don't know really. i mean they have a lot of advantages with the new technology, they can do things that we couldn't and Jackie is a good cast role to take over me, but they are missing the guy that knows the most about the dream world and the person that created this dark character that we've all come to grow and love for his iconic status, appearance and personality and that being Craven himself."
I guess I understand what your saying about the movies of today.
And Wolfman "oh so"? No way man. Next to Franky, Wolfman is my next fav. But like you said, if you likey, you likey.
Later man.
Nah, we need to have the old made new. They just don't need to screw them up when they remake them. Keep them like the originals were, but on NOS. The old Freddies are always going to be good. I have the Frankenstein Legacy Collection, and I prefer watching those, over anything that has been made recently, including/especially that Robert De Niro vehicle. What a travesty that was!
So if it's the old that you prefer, just stick with it, like I've stuck with my original Halloween 1 & 2, and said screw the rest. When movies become contemporarily dated, and can't be looked at as timeless, it is a given, that they will be remade.
Fifty years from now, the Saw movies will be remade. But by then, we will probably be able to interact with the characters, and tell them what to do, and not just yell at the screen.
For me, all sucky sequels simply don't exist. Even though I saw shitty Alien 3, I have decided, in my mind, that Ripley made it back to Earth, and is living a happy life with her new husband Hicks, new daughter Newt and new butler/bodyguard Bishop.
On a related note (to Halloween), I picked up a flashing Halloween skull that plays the real Halloween theme music by Carpenter and flashes. I will try to make it flicker, instead of flash, but I just think it's awesome. You can get yours from Walgreens drug stores for just ten bucks.
but im really looking forward to it ...
I also loved the documentary "The Curse of the Blair Witch", that they have on the DVD. It's the full footage of the interviews of the townspeople that you only see pieces of, in the movie. What hyped this movie up, is that people didn't know if the footage was real or just a movie. I don't know if you remember, but it was hyped, campaigned and advertised like it was an incident that really happened.
It's the cheapest movie ever made, that has made the most profit, of all time! I haven't seen part 2 "The Book of Shadows", but I heard it was dreadful.