Michael Bay To Relaunch “A Nightmare On Elm Street”
Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, has been tapped by New Line to re-launch Freddy Krueger and the “A Nightmare On Elm Street” movie series about the murderous psycho who haunts the dreams of teenagers and kills them in their sleep.
The Freddy Krueger character was originally played by Robert Englund and was featured in nine films and two TV series. “Nightmare” was New Line’s most lucrative film franchise until “The Lord of the Rings” came along. The first “A Nightmare On Elm Street” was written and directed by Wes Craven in 1984 and featured Johnny Depp in his first feature film role.
The relaunch of this film series comes just as Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes gets ready to relaunch another 1980s horror franchise, “Friday the 13th” starring the most famous Jason of all (I’m excluding myself, of course), Jason Voorhees. “Cloverfield” star Odette Yustman has just been tapped to star in that film, and Marcus Nispel will direct a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (Freddy Vs. Jason). Filming will get under way in April.
Both franchises will be given a complete overhaul, or a re-imagining as many like to call it, similar to what Platinum Dunes provided in the Nispel directed “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” New Line will not be able to hire a writer for “Nightmare” until the writer’s strike ends.
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