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New Line Will Eventually Get Around to Remaking ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
It’s been three years since we learned that New Line Cinema was developing yet another remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Nothing has changed, although the success of Universal Pictures’ Halloween has fans wondering when Freddy Krueger will return to the big screen. The answer is, eventually. Right now, New Line is focused on their Conjuring universe.
“It’s still happening,” writer David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick tells GameSpot.
“Nothing is percolating just yet. The Conjuring universe is sort of first and foremost on [New Line Cinema’s] horror burner. Everybody wants to see Freddy again I think, so I think it’s inevitable at some point.”
Let’s be very clear here, the response is both conjecture and speculation. The last I checked in (Oct. 21), I was told the exact same thing from several sources: Conjuring, Conjuring, Conjuring. I was told there was zero movement or discussion on Johnson-McGoldrick’s screenplay, although one has to hope that with James Wan finished with Aquaman, maybe he finds a way to create a slasher universe alongside his Conjuring films over at Warner Bros./New Line?
As we broke the news earlier this fall, LeBron James‘ SpringHill Entertainment will produce a remake of Friday the 13th with Roy Lee‘s Vertigo Entertainment, and Legendary has acquired the rights to revive Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as Leatherface, so a shared universe is possible. The recent success of horror and the slasher film surely will help propel these films and characters back to the big screen, the only question is when? 2019 could be the year we’ve all been waiting for…
Digressing, Samuel Bayer directed the 2010 Elm Street reboot that introduced Jackie Earle Haley as the new Freddy. Robert Englund played the iconic slasher from Wes Craven’s 1984 A Nightmare On Elm Street through several films, concluding in 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason.
With Halloween picking up where John Carpenter’s film left off, and retconning the sequels, could A Nightmare on Elm Street follow suit and bring Englund back for one last hurrah?
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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