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Could Freddy Return in ‘Elm Street 2’… and in 3-D?
With New Line Cinema’s A Nightmare on Elm Street arriving in theaters this Friday, the horror circle has already begun to speculate on whether or not Freddy Krueger has enough fuel in the tank to the keep the fire burning for a sequel to the reboot. While Jackie Earle Haley and Rooney Mara are already signed on for a sequel (if it were to go), Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller tells Bloody Disgusting that this weekend will dictate whether or not a sequel could potentially happen. Read on for the skinny.
On A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2:
“Honestly, no one’s had a conversation about a sequel at this point,” Fuller tells Bloody Disgusting in an exclusive interview. “And I think that to do so would be arrogant. At the end of the day, the sequel discussion, the right time to have that is after this movie…if this movie comes out and accomplishes what the studio wants, then we can have sequel discussion. But I can tell you that there has not been one conversation about a sequel at this point. Just because no one knows how the movie’s gonna do. We’re optimistic, and we’d love to have that conversation, but as of today it has not happened.”
On the prospect of Elm Street 2 being a 3-D movie, he took on the post-conversion madness currently plaguing multiplexes:
“I am a fan of 3-D if the movie’s conceived as a 3-D film. I’m not a fan of 3-D if you shoot something one way, and then you try and convert it to something else. 3-D…should be an immersive experience. And in order for that experience to be fully satisfying, I think that you have to conceive of a movie that way. Our sequel to `Friday the 13th’ was conceived as a 3-D film. So that movie, I would love to make in 3-D. And I think that `Nightmare’ certainly lends itself to 3-D. But it doesn’t lend itself to 3-D after the fact. I think a conversion is 3-D after the fact.”
A Nightmare on Elm Street arrives in theaters this Friday.
Released in 1981, the original Canadian slasher classic My Bloody Valentine spawned a Hollywood remake (My Bloody Valentine 3D) in 2009, but it’s now been 15 years since we’ve heard a peep from the franchise about a sadistic and bloodthirsty miner with a pick(axe) to grind. But as “The Ballad of Harry Warden” once told us, it’s a curse that will live on and on…
And the My Bloody Valentine franchise does indeed plan to live on, as Bloody Disgusting has exclusively learned that Blumhouse is developing a brand new My Bloody Valentine movie.
Stay tuned for more information as we learn it.
My Bloody Valentine is one of those franchises that never was, with both the original movie and the 2009 remake failing to spawn follow-up movies. That’s despite Lionsgate’s My Bloody Valentine 3D scaring up $100 million at the worldwide box office, and the original becoming a classic that horror fans enjoy watching every time the calendar flips to February 14.
George Mihalka directed the original 1981 movie. In the film, “A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine’s Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer’s order and people start turning up dead.”
Directed by Patrick Lussier, the 3D remake follows a similar storyline. “Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine’s night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he’s innocent.”
“In this little town when the 14th comes ’round, there’s a silence and fear in the air…”
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