Freddy Krueger? Ugh.
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.
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.
A Nightmare on Elm Street was released April 30th, 2010 and stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton. The film is directed by Samuel Bayer.
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digital3dg
alienating fans of the original series is platinum dunes huge mistake as well as alienating its makers assuming something wrong with it. thier are 8 nightmare sequels and 6 starwars sequels, nightmare is just as loved with teens growing up as it taught them to deal with tough issues, i think platinum dunes owes original nightmare fans some sort of apology in order for the franchise to be successful. fans feel like someone has sh*t in thier mouth and are bright enough to realize when someone is trying to make a demographic buck.its not about hate, its about treating a franchise with respect.
2 years agoby @digital3dgFlag
digital3dg
for those who want to come in here and bash robert englund i have this to say, robert is as much loved as boris karloff was for frankenstein by fans around the world. Children still wear frankenstein masks made in karloff's image, not robert deniro's. When all is said and done you are going to end up with jackie hailey immatating robert englund playing freddy in order for this franchise to succede with them stating it. Robert was not asked to play this according to his myspace fanclub and official website. we could have just had the real fred kruger instead of a cheap immatation.
2 years agoby @digital3dgFlag
digital3dg
thats platinum dunes and micheal bay and jackie has same kind of name as micheal..jacko etc. ^_^ end of rant. freddy would have never been scary or done well as pedofreddy wes was right to remove the idea and had class for not making a buck off that route, thiers sick and thiers scary. continue that theme anyone against this idea. say no to micheal j freddy and stick to the classic and jackie just do rorshak or immatate robert not mice and men retarded freddy. truly end of rant ^_^
2 years agoby @digital3dgFlag
digital3dg
also please tell me your not doing the origin scene in the trailer (copied from freddy vs. jason opening except the run to the boiler) at the beggining of the movie, it will completely ruin the movie as the great thing about the original was it was a detective movie, not knowing what freddy was an hour into it was what made it great. at least we wont have of mice and men retarded freddy. ^_^ ever compare similarities to jackie and micheal jackson..high pitch squeeky voice, burn victim, fedora, accused molestor (jackie plays molesters), one glove..schmon! hoee. just say no to pedofreddy.
2 years agoby @digital3dgFlag
digital3dg
thats 3 weeks if they dont somehow make older fans happy they'll have to make this pg-13 or no parents will want to take thier kids to see it and supernatural accused pedophile is homolicous, we already have micheal jackson with one glove, burn victim,high squeeky voice, fedora wearing (smooth operator), burn victim( pepsi) and pedophile accusations, we dont need that for freddy ok? It dumbs down the character. Even star trek reboot had common sense to get the old spock. The original nightmare series was a teen/parent buddy movie without alot of sex like friday the 13th, parents felt comfortable taking their teens as it had nerd common teens as role models who acted heroic. Nightmare 1 is listed in the top 100 of great horror movies and deserves that place, Freddy is as iconic as Dracula and Frankenstein.
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).
2 years agoby @digital3dgFlag
digital3dg
Thank god their doing this at least. I have a lot of disrespect for New Line after not bothering to ask any of the cast. Nightmare 1 is a part of american history, after 8 films and 30 years robert at lest deserves a cameo. He was not asked to take any part in this movie wich is hugely disrespectfull according to his official myspace fanclub.What i would hope (and is probably beyond hope) is that they would have the brains to decide to use
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 circ*mstances, 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.
2 years agoby @digital3dgFlag
THE JOKER
That is very stupid of them to not include Craven. I doubt he would be overly picky but even if he was look what he did with the originals with limited technology. I not too sure this is going to be good... but i will see it anyways and give it a fair chance...
2 years agoby @mcleve02Flag
Chad Vital
despise*
2 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag
Chad Vital
I depise The Hills Have Eyes, seriously one of thee most pointless movies of all time lol. Nothing goes right, ever. Even the ending is a cliff hanger of bad things to come.
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.
2 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag
J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director
Hmmmmmm take a look at this trailer people, apparently, people wanted this guy to direct the remake.
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
2 years agoby @chronicFlag
J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director
Ok, i can agree on that, it would be pretty darn annoying, but Wes has been consultant to all his remake films, Hills have eyes (that was good), Last House on the Left (haven't seen yet), but in general a lot of his films that he has been a consultant on turn out pretty good.
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
2 years agoby @chronicFlag
Cripple
I think this will be one of the only good horror remakes to come out in the horror-remake boom we are going through
2 years agoby @crippleFlag
Chad Vital
I understand both sides, yeah that's a slap in the face to Craven, but on the other side, I think they didn't want him to be too picky about what they were doing. I mean really, do you want somebody to be looking over your shoulder telling you how to do your job? It'd be like somebody looking over your shoulder as you were writing JA and telling you they don't like this or that or you can't do this or that. It'd be annoying. I think they just wanted to do their own thing with Freddy without strings attached. But it turns around on them, and that Brad producer guy has to write a blog to calm everyone down because people are already unhappy with Freddy (and it's just a teaser trailer)! Ouch lol. Not a good start. I bet they feel stupid, like "maybe we SHOULD have asked Wes to monitor production". Oh well, I bet you we'll all go see it anyway lol. I saw Friday the 13th on dvd, and it was alright. I didn't really hate it, nor did I really like it either. It was just mediocre for me. The sad part is, the best parts were the sexual ones. That's not good lol.
2 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag
J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director
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."
2 years agoby @chronicFlag
Chad Vital
Do you think they even spoke to him lol?
2 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag
J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director
now what interets me about this, is why did they turn down to have Craven as a consultant on the film...
2 years agoby @chronicFlag
Vanboy
"That'd be like us getting another update on Boondock Saints 2 and the guy writing the article gives us his negative opinion on it. I don't want to see that sh*t ya know? Their job is provide unbiased news only."
Very good point Chad. That's true.
2 years agoby @vanboyFlag
ed_wood
My expectations are low for this one, but I still want to see it.
2 years agoby @ed-woodFlag
Messenger
Even though RZ isn't well liked around here, you can't deny that he gave Halloween it's aesthetic.
2 years agoby @messengerFlag
Chad Vital
luca is gonna startle the bee hive... haha. I like RZ and people in regular/daily life like him too. I only see Rob Zombie hate on the internet.
2 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag
luca_frontino
Rob Zombie should have made this.
2 years agoby @luca-frontinoFlag
Juiceboxprod7
The main girl was just in CBS's Harpers Island. So she already knows how to scream, cry, and be scared. I really feel, shorter or not, JEH will do whats needed for Freddy. Yes, Fred looks like a burn victim, but he also looks like a creature from The Descent. This movie will still do very well opening weekend, but might falter after word of mouth. As for remakes, yes, they are getting old, but no matter what, they are going to make them. Audiences love em. Nothing will ever be left alone or put to sleep as some of you would like. They will be around forever. The Punisher on the other hand, dead. Just like The Joker didnt die with Heath. Someone will do another Joker. Leprachaun remake anybody? LOL.
2 years agoby @juiceboxprod7Flag
artkid04
ya that was thomas dekker from Terminator
2 years agoby @artkid04Flag
SWAK1774
I recognized one of the victims as the kid from TSCC.
2 years agoby @swak1774Flag
-comrade-
Jackie Haley will probably be phenomenal...as for his young victims, they already look like a troupe of sh*t-actors in this trailer, and they barely have any lines.
2 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag
Bawnian-Dexeus
wow, terrible
the original movie, the first one is still #1
2 years agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag
Chad Vital
That'd be like us getting another update on Boondock Saints 2 and the guy writing the article gives us his negative opinion on it. I don't want to see that sh*t ya know? Their job is provide unbiased news only.
2 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag
Chad Vital
He just slapped all of you guys in the face lol.
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.
2 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag
The Narrator: The Better Man
J.J. I would love to see an original horror movie. That gets a wide release and is totally out of this world. Not something like My Bloody valentine, or The Unborn, or the Collector or anything. I mean a slasher film or horror film that can get audiences riled to see. That hasn't been around ever since...the 80's. Lol.
2 years agoby @narratorFlag
Vamp
Still can't wait to see it.
2 years agoby @vampire2000Flag