A Nightmare on Elm Street Remake - Set Visit Preview
A Nightmare on Elm Street Remake - Set Visit Preview
Horror.com on the set in Chicago.
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Leave it to me to open with the cheap shot. Seeing actor Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) on set in Chicago, halfway-dressed as the new Freddy Krueger, I could not help but recall something the originator of the role, Robert Englund once said…
Me: Robert Englund once said that the hero glove for Freddy Krueger was 'the instant circumcision kit'. He had to be careful in the men's room. Have you ever had any mishaps?
Jackie Earle Haley: That’s a good line. [laughs] Yeah, I constantly worry about that, but so far there’s only been one time where I had to call Andrew, the designer of this makeup, so that I could ask, ‘Did I just cut into this appliance?’ But aside from that, it is always on and, you know, I worry about… oops.
Ouch. Sounds like that could be painful. Later on that day myself and a few other members of the esteemed press (OK; genre websites) got to see "Freddy" himself putting on the hurt with those fatal finger-knives. (Details forthcoming, along with complete interviews with the cast and director Samuel Bayer.)
Although A Nightmare On Elm Street is all about virtual reality in a deadly dreamscape, Platinum Dunes producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form say they will be keeping this remake as grounded as possible.
Fuller: We went for [realism] on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake also. To try and keep that as real as possible. Even when Marcus [Nispel, the director] came on to our first movie, the Chainsaw movie, he said, “I want to make it like a snuff film, make it feel real, kind of like the original.” Sam [Bayer] came on and a lot of things we had heard early on were, “How can you make Nightmare on Elm Street without Robert England?” That was the first thing. We hear everything out there [on] the Internet. Obviously, we had to change the makeup. We had to change everything. We wanted Freddy to look like a real burn victim, and it started there.
Form: Also, I think that if we’re going to try and restart this franchise or at least bring our take to the franchise, it had to be different from what the other one was. It felt like the first Nightmare On Elm Street was kind of a scary, straight ahead horror movie, and then as they went on, they became more funny. In an effort to differentiate ours from what it had become, we wanted ours to feel much more real.
Stay tuned for more on A Nightmare On Elm Street, and if you are in San Diego for Comic-Con this weekend don't miss the surprises in store! (Follow Fuller on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/bcfuller)
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