Competing Nightmare on Elm Street Remakes In Development & Each Has Fans Worried, For Different Reasons
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The 1984 movie Wes Craven only made for the money
Wes Craven is among the top tier of directors who truly changed the horror genre through inventive filmmaking techniques, but he also made one of his most iconic films and his most forgettable fare in the same year. While any director interested in the horror genre would be lucky to be involved in just one famous franchise, Craven created three with The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. The original The Hills Have Eyes was …
Freddy Krueger is Headed for a Studio Showdown With Two A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Remakes in Development
Freddy Krueger might finally be getting ready to claw his way back into theaters, but the road back to A Nightmare on Elm Street is shaping up to be far weirder than anyone expected. Instead of one studio reviving the legendary horror franchise, a new report claims that two different studios are developing separate remakes at the same time. A Nightmare on Elm Street, created by Wes Craven, completely changed the horror landscape when it debuted …
Warner Bros. and Paramount compete to recover Freddy Krueger with two new versions of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' before their merger
Warner Bros. Reportedly Developing International ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Movie With Lee Cronin?!
Last November, Robert Englund had shared his thoughts on why there hasn’t been any movement on the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in the past sixteen years. Englund told Indiewire at the time, “There are so many people involved who have a piece of the action.” “When Wes passed away, he left an awful lot of rights to his estate,” Englund explained. “He has many many rights that he worked out between character titles and names and plot and th…
Productions such as Backrooms or Obsession may have demonstrated the commercial wealth of betting on new ideas, but in Hollywood the value of franchises remains an international claim guarantee that is difficult to ignore. The process of perpetuating such intellectual properties is usually more or less simple. One or more rightholders give the IP to a studio or label for X years and this one is free to exploit it commercially in the halls or on …
Competing Nightmare on Elm Street Remakes In Development & Each Has Fans Worried, For Different Reasons
Image courtesy of New Line Cinema Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street changed the slasher genre when it introduced the meta-horror killer Freddy Krueger, turning a razor-gloved dream stalker into one of horror’s most enduring icons across seven sequels, a television series, and multiple crossover events. New Line Cinema built its reputation as a horror powerhouse around the character before […]
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