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Jackie Earle Haley Talks Freddy’s Voice, Additional Filming
Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of chatter behind Warner Bros. Pictures’ A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot, which is slated for release on April 30. After a series of test screenings, word of additional shooting taking place over the holidays swept through the web, all while there is still some speculation of what Jackie Earle Haley will sound like as the new Freddy Krueger. While out promoting his role on “Human Target”, Haley went on record about some of these rumors.
Haley reveals that they still haven’t locked down a voice for the burnt child-molester.
“We’re still working on it,” Haley told Sci Fi Wire. “There’s still more [additional dialogue recording] stuff to do, so it’s an ongoing process, I think, until it comes out.”
And while they retool his voice, they’ve also been shooting some new sequences.
“We did do some re-shoots over the Christmas holidays, and I feel really good about that,” he said. “Just some re-shoots and tweaks that I think are probably customary for pretty much every movie that gets made.”
They add that some of the reshoots required Haley to wear the incredibly uncomfortable Freddy burn makeup. “Yes, I was tortured all Christmas,” he joked.
In the remake of the classic Wes Craven slasher, a group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger (Haley), a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape.
Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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