{"id":1323,"date":"2008-01-29T23:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T22:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/29\/new-nightmare-on-elm-st-film-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T01:49:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T00:49:59","slug":"new-nightmare-on-elm-st-film-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/01\/29\/new-nightmare-on-elm-st-film-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nightmare on Elm Street film in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freddy_Krueger\" title=\"Freddy Kruger\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/freddy200.jpg\" title=\"Freddy Kruger\" alt=\"Freddy Kruger\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freddy_Krueger\">Freddy Krueger<\/a> is back as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Line_Cinema\">New Line<\/a> has decided to revive their favourite horror franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3id7a38beb81e650f9f21a741836c8498a\">say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> New Line is in talks with horror production company Platinum Dunes to re-launch the &#8220;A Nightmare on Elm Street&#8221; movie series, the franchise that helped establish the studio.<br clear=\"none\" \/> <br clear=\"none\" \/> Partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form will produce the redo.<br clear=\"none\" \/> <br clear=\"none\" \/> The first &#8220;Nightmare&#8221; movie was made by Wes Craven and released in 1984. The runaway success of the film spawned a slew of films and created one of the most popular villains in screen history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund. <br clear=\"none\" \/> <br clear=\"none\" \/> The films&#8217; premise centered on Krueger, a serial child killer murdered by angry parents, who returns with a burnt face and a razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the terrible remakes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0324216\/\">The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0384806\/\">The Amityville Horror<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0455960\/\">The Hitcher<\/a> (not to mention the farce that was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freddy_vs_jason\">Freddy vs Jason<\/a>) is this such a good idea?<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117979807.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2564\">Variety report on the news<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_%28franchise%29\">Find out more about Nightmare on Elm St  at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddy Krueger is back as New Line has decided to revive their favourite horror franchise. The Hollywood Reporter say: New Line is in talks with horror production company Platinum Dunes to re-launch the &#8220;A Nightmare on Elm Street&#8221; movie series, the franchise that helped establish the studio. Partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}