It’s really hard to take a classic film, beloved by so many, and turn it around into a new vehicle with new players for the contemporary age. Really, it’s a device that used way too often with more and more classics from the ’80s and ’90s being rehashed into newer vessels. (Please, please don’t remake Big Trouble in Little China!) But, these are the times we live in, folks, so it’s better to just get used to it rather than fight it.
Robert Englund, star of the original Nightmare on Elm Street series, knows what it’s like to have his film remade into a sh*ttier version, and he recently talked to eager fans at a comic-con in Belfast about where the 2010 reboot of his Freddy Krueger character went wrong.
They reshot the opening and it threw the movie off kilter. You don’t see any of the people happy go-lucky, they’re never untainted. They’re practically zombies from the get-go because they’re haunted by Freddy, and I think that was a miscalculation. You need to see before and after so you can invest emotionally with the children.
Englund also talked about the possibility of playing in the series one more time.
There’s been some talk that they might reboot Nightmare 3, which may be the most popular of all the films. I would certainly like to be invited to do a cameo. Maybe play the cantankerous old professor or the group therapy guy that doesn’t believe they’re having nightmares.
Okay, I kind of take back my earlier statements. I actually would like to see a remake of Dream Warriors, only because it’s one of my favorite horror films, and I’d love to see what an updated version would like like.
(via Square Eyed)
