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‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Remake Writer Blames Director for Failure
Eric Heisserer. writer of the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, lays much of the blame for the film’s failure at the feet of director Samuel Bayer.
If there’s one thing that seems inevitable about Hollywood horror, it’s that every major – and even many minor – horror film will someday get remade, if not more than once. To date, one of the biggest duds among this crop was 2010’s hated A Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
While the movie made a profit in theaters – earning $115 million worldwide on a budget of $35 million – the resulting backlash against it from fans, critics, and even casual viewers resulted in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise entering hibernation for the past decade.
It remains to be seen when Freddy Krueger will be resurrected – although Robert Englund recently said he might be up for one more movie – but most would agree that the 2010 remake was a disaster. This includes writer Eric Heisserer, who feels his script was ruined.
In fact, Heisserer puts most of the blame for the film at the feet of director Samuel Bayer. During a recent Twitter thread, Heisserer – who’s since written Final Destination 5 and Netflix’s Bird Box, among others – looked back on the film and its many grave mistakes.
As @bradmiska might remember, the draft that we thought was going to be shot was different in many ways, some big and some subtle. This happens a lot, but I still have memories of arriving to set and recognizing nothing from the script on the shooting schedule.
— Eric Heisserer (on hiatus) (@HIGHzurrer) March 17, 2019
In case you were wondering, this is NOT how it works. And that was one of so many things I saw undone. One of the New Line guys and I worked hard to sidestep tropes in the script. An example: Freddy appearing while two characters are driving in car.
— Eric Heisserer (on hiatus) (@HIGHzurrer) March 17, 2019
So we had Freddy rise up in the back seat, taunt Quentin (driving) as he gores Nancy through the chair, blood spraying the windshield, Nancy screaming at Quentin WAKE UP and he snaps to realize he'd drifted off while driving and the two crash the car into a tree.
— Eric Heisserer (on hiatus) (@HIGHzurrer) March 17, 2019
There are a thousand reasons why things like this happen, but with the right team in place, you have collaborators who plus up the project versus make it a different thing than what it was originally designed to be.
— Eric Heisserer (on hiatus) (@HIGHzurrer) March 17, 2019
Why? Because it meant Wes Craven was not given story credit. For characters and a world he invented. For a plot twist akin to PSYCHO that was his idea — you don't realize Nancy is the heroine for the first act. I petitioned to have him included and lost.
— Eric Heisserer (on hiatus) (@HIGHzurrer) March 17, 2019
All of this a really long-winded way of saying: Yes, this should be remade. I'm not advocating my script from back then, but just have it made by people who have a love and expertise of not just NOES but horror. There are some amazing voices today for it.
— Eric Heisserer (on hiatus) (@HIGHzurrer) March 17, 2019
While Heisserer doesn’t mention Bayer by name in the thread above, in other replies, he makes clear that’s who he’s talking about with regard to all the script changes. Scripts getting changed on set is certainly not a new phenomenon, but one wonders what could’ve been.
In the meantime, here’s hoping New Line gets in touch with Englund and takes him up on that offer to play Freddy one more time. I know I’d love to see it, and most Nightmare fans would too. I do feel kinda bad for Jackie Earle Haley though, who wasn’t too bad as Freddy.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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