It's seems some producers are listening to what the online movie community have to say about remaking every great horror film from our pasts, and slicking them up for today's day and age.
As many of you have responded to the likes of the
new teaser trailer for
A Nightmare on Elm Street, (in which I personally think Jackie Early, great as an actor the guy might be, is too short to be Freddy. I mean, he looks like a little kid wearing a Freddy costume in the trailer!), producer of the film, Brad Fuller, has responded to many of your concerns regarding the upcoming movie.
I have to thank many of you. The debut of the teaser was really amazing. Whether you like it or hate it, the release of it was huge. More that 1.6 million people saw it in the first 24 hours. The traffic to the teaser even clogged up Bloody-Disgusting for a day. As many of you know getting the teaser to you has been quite an ordeal - one that I think deserves an explanation...
Originally, our teaser was to be released on Jennifer's Body and I was excited to tweet all about it. I announced on my twitter page that I would make an announcement within two weeks, assuming that all the plans came to fruition. But what happened was we liked the teaser, yet felt it needed to be better. Our intention always to reveal Freddy at the very end, but we had three different scenes and couldn't decide on which one was the best. At the same time Mike Jones (Warner bros.) Drew, Bay and I keep reworking the body of the teaser. Asking ourselves, "are we showing too much, not enough etc." We wanted to be sure that whatever we released was the best version. When we finally decided on the final version of the teaser it was too late to be on Jennifer's Body - so we looked at the release schedule and felt that Zombieland could work for us.
At the end of the day are there things we would like to change in that teaser? Of course. But knowing our team we would keep changing things till the end of the time. Let's be honest, Drew and I know that NOES is the most important film we've made. We know how all you feel about Freddy, and how you feel about us. We don't want to be the guys who screwed up Freddy and as such are pushing ourselves harder than we've ever pushed. Moreover, we have found a wonderful partner in Sam Bayer. He has such high standards and refuses to cut any corner.
I have been receiving a couple of questions and want to answer some here:
Is that Freddy's final look? No, it isn't - we are continuing to refine Freddy's look. Many people commented about the CGI on his face - and I don't want to give everything away but I will say this - Freddy's face is 98% practical make-up. Moreover, as you now know we went hardcore on what a burn victim really looks like, and I can't imagine what the comments would have been if he DIDN'T look like a real burn victim.
Is that Freddy's final voice? No, Jackie spent so much time on the voice, researching what people who've has their vocal cords burned sound like. He is still working on it and I suspect that we will be refining it, until the last moment.
Will it be rated PG-13? Are you kidding me? Make no mistake about it this is a R-rated movie.
Finally, many of you tell me how you have been defending me in chat rooms. I just want you know that I really appreciate that. We will never be free of haters, but if we can at least present ourselves in an intelligent way we can point out the absurdity of having a negative opinion about something that doesn't even exist yet.
Anyway, stay tuned as I hope to have some
Friday the 13th II (or 13 depending on how you are counting) news soon.
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or someone from the classic. Thank god their changing the voice and probably the makeup, i may actualy see the damned thing and keeping the music. end of rant. *(thats start releasing horror movies on halloween when people are in the mood to watch them most, do that and use roberts voice/jackie as stunt body and i bet this is the highest grossing horror movie in history).
hailey as bodywork and robert as the voice, like david prose/james earl jones both played darth vader. You would see the box office for this go through the roof as its older fans you have to please, not 20 year olds, if older fans dont want to go see this you will not have them draggin thier teens and without a pg-13 rating and this dismissal of the earlier nightmare, I give this 3 weeks max. Robert was not asked for any part in this and i believe deserves (at least a cameo, cmon even stan lee gets 5 seconds). The level of disrespect in the film industry turns my stomach. If we cant copy movies under any circumstances, neither should hollywood.
If you want to make a billion dollars off this,release it halloween and star releasing your movies halloween instead of april/may/dec, thats when people want to see these movies and just
use robert as the voice and please both old and new fans. Pedophile is a bad idea, this is a ghost story, not a demon story
for those confused what freddy is,with freddy possesing the teens and haunting his murderers by harming thier teenage kids. Also wes
used real teens with problems, not beauty queens wich is the micheal bay standard so I hope this is not another preppy beauty queen movie as common people related to the first and freddy needs
humor, hes like the joker. Removing nancy was what collapsed this franchise, not freddys jokes, even in nightmare he has comic moments (phone/bf comment scene). So please for the love of god
use trailers and fan response as demographics, not board meetings and new line show some respect. Transformers would have tanked without the original voices from the cartoon, people see remakes out of nostalgia, not including fans of the original is a terrible mistake and bad press move.
Yeah I'd rather see Iron Man 2 instead. Why didn't they put Nightmare closer to Halloween of next year? It would make more sense for them since people like going to "scary" movies near Halloween. I mean its only competition would be Saw 7 when that came out. It'd do much better against that than Iron Man 2 lol.
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
They maybe did want to do Freddy with no strings attached but heck, learn about the character first and his aethestics, personality, codes and conventions first, not everything has to be dark and serious as that film you know which one i'm talking about.
They've removed the part of Freddy's character that everyone loved in exchange for a more darker tone, messed up his look, gave him a voice that sounds like a frog and someone the same size as a bullfrog, despite his the best actor to continue the role.
And to note this is the 2nd blog his wrote to calm everyone down, the 1st blog was when the SCRIPT got leaked online, he claimed it to be a fake and then latter on admitted that it was an early SCRIPT draft written by Wesley Strick dated Jan 2009 (that hardly seems old), but he stated that stuff has been changed especially the spider scene being removed.
So what does that tell us about Brad Fuller especially the simple fact that this film hasn't even been released yet and he has already lied to fans?
I never watched Friday The 13th, my bro got it on pirate, i walked in and saw the first 3 - 5 mins, when Pamela dies and straight then i knew it was bullocks.
Hmmmm, well if there is nothing on at my cinema, i'll see it, but my cinema don't usually get these crappy remake movies, they usually have them for one week only, but where this film is due to be released is in a really bad spot, its got one week to make its profits, that is before it gets demolished by the most anticipated film of the year hits cinema, which is Iron Man 2
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."
Very good point Chad. That's true.
the original movie, the first one is still #1
Btw, Newkill, movieweb doesn't write things correctly so it's probably more like just a response to all the hatemail he's been getting. He never said he was going to tell us why they were remaking it. Whoever wrote this article (made a bunch of flaws). One- He said that he was going to say stuff that producer didn't say. Two- The article includes the editor/writer's biased opinion before the long producer quote, which should never be that way it's very unprofessional. They should never give out their opinions like that, and if they do, that's what the post comments section is for.