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RUMOR CONTROL: Just How Did Thornton Become Krueger?
Friday, August 15, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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I hated this week, I really did. After spending hours wasting my time writing stories on the BS that was GHOSTBUSTERS and the fun of putting out the TRICK 'R TREAT flames Warner accidentally ignited, Robert Englund got fans all stirred up over his claim that Billy Bob Thornton would slip on Freddy Krueger's glove for New Line Cinema's remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The story, which we all laughed at the second we read it, spread through Internet Land like a dragon burning through a village. Even big sites and news publications reported it as FACT. It was fun watching reputable companies make a complete arse of themselves - but where, oh where, did the rumor stem from? You're going to LOVE this...

During an interview with IFMagazine, Englund tells them exactly where he heard these "facts":

"I heard this rumor from a journalist at a press conference during Comic-Con. I think Billy Bob is a terrific actor. I've been a fan since Evening Shade."

It's amazing how this sh*t spreads.

Source: IFMagazine

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Evil Alien
2:30pm, August 15, 2008
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Bwaaaahahahaha...oy vey...

metalmessiah007
2:36pm, August 15, 2008
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well shit if thats the case we better boycott this movie now, i think javier bardem (no country for old men) would be a great Kruger hes definatly got the creep down

whitewolf34
3:53pm, August 15, 2008
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That would be a huge mistake casting him in a legendary role like Freddy! There is only one Freddy and we all know who that is.

Crox83
4:34pm, August 15, 2008
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They have to get an unknown actor! Come on!

zombieslasher13
4:46pm, August 15, 2008
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I've met Robert and he seems like a cool guy, but I don't get why he really doesn't care that their fucking with the franchise that made him a star and that they'll pick some poor choice to take over the glove. All of the fans seem that their against it expecially if Robert isn't Freddy.

Thommy Razor
4:46pm, August 15, 2008
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That is funny. "I reckon there ain't no runnin in the hallway, mm hmm." But seriously, are the fans really clamoring for a nightmare remake? I've not heard it. So why do it?

abe_the_cop
4:48pm, August 15, 2008
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whatever BD fell for it too.

spacecowboygangstaoflove
5:19pm, August 15, 2008
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Bloody-Disgusting reported it as a rumor right away actually. I think they had an article up Monday after Englund said something Sunday Night on Loveline

jhowington32
5:38pm, August 15, 2008
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what ev! I could soo see billy bob thorton as krueger .. billy bob just looks like a sleezy janitor. not to mention the guy is a fucking oscar winner! c'mon people change is good!

MKultra138
6:24pm, August 15, 2008
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How about Michael Berryman?

Jerkofwonder
6:27pm, August 15, 2008
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Maybe Robert is ok with it because he is not a whiny little baby that hates all change? Seriously, hating a remake for being a remake is retarded.

Stinger839
6:30pm, August 15, 2008
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and thus it came to light: Comic-Con nerds are worse than desperate housewives when it comes to gossip

nuttyhotspurs
6:31pm, August 15, 2008
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billy bob is a quality actor and defintely wouldnt do freddy any harm. surely people on here don't want englund to do it again???? hes done

johnny5
7:02pm, August 15, 2008
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Some good news for once

CJ_01976
10:34pm, August 15, 2008
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Robert Englund, YOU SUCK!!!!!! >:(

sanjr
10:39pm, August 15, 2008
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As much as I respect Thornton as an actor...There can only be one Freddie. Nobody but Englund could play the part. If it ain't Englund, Why bother???

NanaharaShuya
4:52am, August 16, 2008
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You can keep Englund easy...just go all X-men 3 CG on his face and Tadah! He's young again. But no one wants to watch a two hour flick about a pervert who murders and fucks kids. It ain't gonna happen. Now, if they cut back in forth between the present and showed MORE of his past. Then maybe. But would that be any different than most Freddy flicks?

drmodem
5:09am, August 16, 2008
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I think Michael Barrymore would be perfect.

bloodypete
7:43am, August 16, 2008
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Robert, love the guy but everyone should know to take his teases with a barrel of salt by now. Can you really imagine anyone filling the glove of Englund? This is just a flop waiting to happen, but the problem with such flops is they make just as much money...every Krueger fan who has bashed it since the begining will line up and see this out of morbid curiousity. A remake/prequel like Halloween would be interesting though but anyone who has seen the Nightmare films already know enough about his past...what more is there to know. Son of a hundred maniacs, a nun mother that hated him and killed herself...years of abuse from springwood residents...moving around from foster home to home until finally ending up with Alice Cooper for a stepdad! Where he learned the secret of pain by numbing himself to it then using it on others...Roseanne and Tom Arnold must have had something to do with it too.

dead_risen
1:09pm, August 16, 2008
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I guess backwoods bob will be in freddy vs jason 2

JGinthehouse
7:08pm, August 16, 2008
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go billy bob!!!

Big Bad Wolf
11:12am, August 17, 2008
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Thornton is a great actor, but I couldn't see him as Freddy. I'll bet this "journalist" also told him Damien Cain was writing the script.

horrorchick81
11:03am, August 18, 2008
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i never cared for billy bob. hes in his fifties now! i am so boycotting this movie.....freddy=robert englund

gerantgerant
12:10pm, August 18, 2008
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I'm a fairly obsessed Nightmare fan and have been for way more than a decade now. I couldn't stand the idea of Englund being replaced... then this name popped into my head. John Turturro He can be both hilarious and freaky scary. PERFECT! John Turturro is da bomb!

Kruegerchild666
10:14pm, August 20, 2008
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i love robert to death but the man needs to learn a few simple words..."no comment"...my god stop circulating rumors everytime u overhear something or u want something to b true, thats how u lose ur credibility and no one believes a fucking word u say!

jnhfreddy
10:10am, August 24, 2008
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billy bob is a great actor but NO NO NO!!! like i have said since day one of the noes remake although its a bad ida remaking this movie robert englund is freddy nobodyelse can touch him!so dont bother replacin him

Han-d-cann
1:16pm, September 3, 2008
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Look, we have to look at the profile of Freddy. He's tall, thin, creepy, and seriouly lacking moral fiber. Billy-bob has a real shot here to make a killer Freddy. It will be a real test of his skill. Robert Englund owned the original Nightmare, and the critics owned the rest. I think Thorton could really make a great Freddy. Look what he did for Sling Blade. So you take the perv. from Bad Santa, throw in the moral flexibility of Sling Blade, and add the Red and Green sweater, bust-ass fedora, and the all important razor glove, and you have one great Freddy. Believe me, people, Billy-bob is going to own this role!! Englund gave it a base, Thornton will make it a tower.


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