A Nightmare on Elm Street is Go, Shooting in Spring

Platinum Dunes is going to continue its working relationship with Warner Bros. and New Line for A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Since Comic-Con in July, it was unknown whether producers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form were going to be involved in the reboot of the Freddy Krueger franchise. But today, Fuller and Form confirmed to ShockTillYouDrop.com that their deal is done. "It's our next movie," confirmed Form, "hopefully shooting this spring."

Over the summer, Wesley Strick (Cape Fear) was attached to pen the script which is intended to re-imagine the dream-hopping teen killer. "It's like what we're doing to Friday the 13th," says Fuller. "It's not Freddy cracking jokes. We want to make a horrifying movie. The concept is so scary, don't fall asleep or you'll die. This guy gets you when you're most vulnerable, in your sleep. We love that. That's the basis of the movie. It'll be most similar to the first one but in terms of kills and dreams we'll borrow from the entire series."

Shooting is expected to take place in the Chicago suburbs.

Fuller adds that Warner Bros.' positive response to Friday the 13th was very helpful in getting Nightmare off the ground. Test screenings for Jason Voorhees' latest outing have reportedly gone over great.

Addressing the great, incessant question: Will Robert Englund be back? Fuller and Form say they're seeking someone new to don the hat and red 'n green sweater, but they're hopeful Englund will be back for a part in the film.

I already made a topic of this so I merged the 2 topics.

Yeah, another pointless remake, Robert Englund is Freddy Krueger, he made the character like that, he's the face, he's the voice, he's everything what Freddy is, he's not like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, lots of people can play those characters because they are behind a mask and don't speak in the movies so those characters will always be the same but Freddy can't be replaced by someone else.

yeah Ghost, iam wit you 100% on that one, i just want them to keep the Freddy Vs Jason movies rollin wit Robert Englund, he was good there and thewm movies would be killer

well there is supossed to be a Freddy VS Jason sequel, when no one knows, but there is supossed to be one the way they left the first one open

come on, Freddy doesnt say nothin? this wont be great, ya cant have a freddy movie with out him referin to some chick as "BITCH" or some fucked up thing, iam def not interested in this at all

Probably they wrote a lot of naked boobies into the story they forgotten about Freddy's lines.

But why cant we have both Ghost lol

Maybe they can't find a good actor to play Freddy with a good voice. lol
but still with or without a voice they never can beat Robert Englund performance.

hell no def not, Rbo Englund was awsome, and bein he is older now, and played in Jason VS Freddy, i thought he was 1000000 times better

I have read the were considering Jackey Earl Haley to play Freddie and I mean he rock as Rorschach in watchmen so I would be happy with him.

There were even rumors once that Billy Bob Thornton would be Freddy, Robert Englund is 8 years older then Billy Bob so it won't be any difference. lol

well if Billy Bon did it, it wouldnt be freddy, it be some redneck name like Nightmare on Elmstreet: Rise of Cletus lol