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peaches magee
07-24-2009, 09:42 AM
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News out of Comic Con:


Geek Peek: ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ Logo, Poster & Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger

The past couple of days have delivered our first very minor peeks at what to expect in the new A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot from Platinum Dunes, director Samuel Bayer, and producers Brad Fuller and Michael Bay. Various online journalists were given the opportunity to visit the set of the film recently, and while no one is allowed to get into details about that yet, a very cool title logo has been unveiled. Along with that, MySpace and IGN have both been given an exclusive image to show off: one a dark first peek at Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger, and the other a great teaser poster.

As it is with all of these horror icon reboots, people wonder how much exactly they will change from the original character (in this case, played by Robert England), and what route they’re going to take. With these two teaser images, we have some possible answers. In the image of Haley as Krueger, we see that three of the major four elements of Krueger seem to be fairly unchanged: the fedora, tattered and torn Christmas sweater, and the glove all seem to be in tact. The other major element is of course his disfigured face, which we get a small look at in the teaser poster. In it, it actually looks like they might have smartly upgraded the deformed face to look less like applied latex, and more like an actual burn victim. I always hoped that maybe they would go a little Two Face from The Dark Knight with it, but it looks like instead of my ash and fire hopes, they will be doing their own version of the healed up and scarred version.

With the release of all of these goodies, I imagine it is only a matter of time before we see our first teaser trailer for A Nightmare on Elm Street. The movie is slated for an April 16, 2010 release date.

geeksofdoom.com

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and the official poster...

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BeachGurl
07-24-2009, 10:15 AM
AWESOME.

I have high hopes for this movie.

peaches magee
09-29-2009, 09:11 AM
Trailer is up... I can already see there are scenes from the original first movie in this so I guess it is pretty much based on that with extra stuff thrown in.
Right now, honestly, I can't buy his voice and look of his face. Guess we will have to see. :shrug:
I miss Englund already :(

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=63620005

BeachGurl
09-29-2009, 09:34 AM
Yeah his face didn't look right to me.

I'm glad this looks like a straight up re-make and not a re-telling. I was hoping they'd remake the Johnny Depp/bed scene.

Oh and I'm not really liking that Nancy either...

JEP
09-29-2009, 01:28 PM
They got a great actor to play Freddy though. He was awesome in Watchmen. :thumbsup:

Brava_Centauri
09-29-2009, 05:26 PM
Not too excited about this one. I was at first but now it appears it's almost a scene for scene remake of the first film. I'm not interested in seeing that. The first film still holds up to this day. I'm not interested in seeing direct scenes I've already watched before.

BlackHawkTraffic
09-30-2009, 02:09 AM
It could be promising, perfect casting for Freddy.

BigAl_PT
09-30-2009, 01:40 PM
Good grief...can NO ONE come up with a new idea anymore?

Scarletwebslingr
09-30-2009, 08:17 PM
Good grief...can NO ONE come up with a new idea anymore?

With revamped Freddy and revamped Jason we can have a REVAMED FreddyVSJason!!!

BeachGurl
09-30-2009, 08:33 PM
With revamped Freddy and revamped Jason we can have a REVAMED FreddyVSJason!!!

Please God no. That movie was AWFUL.

HitchHikingGhostFangirl
09-30-2009, 08:35 PM
Good grief...can NO ONE come up with a new idea anymore?

nope they cant.

and if they do, it's most likely just a combo of two previous movies.

JEP
09-30-2009, 08:38 PM
Please God no. That movie was AWFUL.

The fight between Freddy and Jason was awesome though. :thumbsup:

Anyone read the Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash comics?

Scarletwebslingr
09-30-2009, 08:40 PM
District 9 was probably one of the more original films to hit theaters recently... but even still.

BigAl_PT
09-30-2009, 09:04 PM
District 9 was probably one of the more original films to hit theaters recently... but even still.
True. But it seems as though at least a third of the movies out there are remakes or "reimaginings".

Scarletwebslingr
09-30-2009, 09:06 PM
True. But it seems as though at least a third of the movies out there are remakes or "reimaginings".

Exactly. Most films now are either remakes, based on comics/books, or sequels. Barf.

HT_NSU
09-30-2009, 10:31 PM
Yeah, I'm thinking that somebody should have added an "originality clause" in the deal that was struck during the writers' strike last year.

HitchHikingGhostFangirl
09-30-2009, 10:46 PM
Yeah, I'm thinking that somebody should have added an "originality clause" in the deal that was struck during the writers' strike last year.

I dont think it's the writers that are the problem. It's the studios choosing the scripts that are easy to do that they know are more likely to bring in the cash.

sadly, thats what it comes down to: how much money can they make.

Knev1
10-02-2009, 06:58 PM
You cannot be serious............ Are there no new ideas!