Tsk tsk, Variety. It was all well known that Strick was WRITING the screenplay, not DIRECTING the movie. ^_^

Not going to happen. Platinum Dunes is hiring folks to write it, and these screenplays they are working on might as well be fanfiction, because the rightholders don't want any part of it. Bob Shaye said as much. Robert Englund wont reprise the role. I heard a few visually challenged fucks mention Ben Foster for Freddy. Have you retards seen his thin upper lip, long chin, and garnormus head. It ballons out on the sides. Englunds head is a near perfect line with his jawline it doesnt ballon out like Bens head does. Ben will look retarded with the makeup on. Hope it happens and you fucks learn. Do a photoshop Kruger makeup job on his alpha dog character, and you will see how his expanding head, no upper lip and long chin would looked fucked up to a holy hell in the makeup. Look the deal is this--- Platinum Dunes is leaning, pushing and handjobing the rightowners to make this happen, but the fans and currently the rightholders want no part of it. Platinum keeps saying wait and see what buisness the Friday Remakes does, and then we will have it. I fucking hope not, cause I know friday will do well, no one cares that it's being remade, and thats sucks. Enough with the raping of these great films to pull in an extra 80 million. Cause the truth is you sour the original series and the fans back away. Go ahead rape and kill Freddy Krueger. You'll be sorry.

I honestly couldn't care less if Ulli Lommel ended up directing it ... there's no way it can improve or beat the original (besides clearer picture and special effects). They might as well cast Carmen Electra and Hillary Duff while they're at it.

thephantomk, calm down. it's a movie. not the end of the world or...a war...or....

I don't think remakes take anything away from the originals. The originals are always going to be the originals, no remake can take that from them. We will all still be able to love those same films. Remakes are a way to revamp and recreate an incredible franchise.

Fridaythe13th, exactly.

i think we'll know who's the director very soon.

F13 and djblack, right on! This remake is going to be tough though.

phantoms right friday remake will do well and dunes is a dick i hate remakes at the best of times , i just wish englund was going to be freddy coz this movies gonna suck otherwise glad strick aint directing it!!!! should be wes craven the man that gave us freddy in the first place if anyone

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1566/fbfpt2.jpg <<<<<<<<<copy and paste to see how fucking wrong ben foster is as a choice to play freddy. His goddamn chin and buldged out temple area on his head would look fucking wrong in the make up.

"You're all my children now"----A Nightmare on Elm Street II.

Ben Foster- Uncanny resemblence to Kruger. I must admit. Face out....

I don't give a fuck who's doing what, I'm not going to see this. Fuck off Moneywood.

Fridaythe13th, rarely do remakes RECREATE a franchise. Especially now, considering how BAD modern remakes are. Out of the mess load of remakes we got in the last 8 years, which ones turned into full blown franchises? The most we got were one sequel, then no pulse. TCM got The Beginning. Halloween's going to get a sequel(though Zombie never wanted one). Amityville HOrror is getting a DIRECT TO DVD sequel(that's what remakes are worth, no?). The Ring got the horrid Ring II. The Grudge got The Grudge II(urgh). Other than that, dead water, baby. Most of these remakes aren't good enough to hold or resurrect a franchise. They actually become the final nail in the coffin. Though, I have to admit, it DOESN'T have anything to do with remakes, in general. It has EVERYTHING to do how the remake is approached. I mentioned this elsewhere, remakes aren't taken seriously, hence they aren't strong pieces of work. Strong pieces of work aren't stable enough to act as the base for a new franchise to take rise. Just no way. Had the industry actually set out to make GOOD horror movies instead of either PG-13 fluff or extreme tit and gorefests, maybe remakes would be strong enough. I can tell you right now, if you decide to remake NOES and say, "I all have to do is keep it as gory as possible and have lots of teens having sex", you missed the target of what NOES is. That's something I believe drives most of the modern horror directors. Many, if not MOST of them were probably kids up to their early teens during the 80s. They watched horror for the sole purpose of getting off on naked chicks and gore, hence what they remember is nothing more than THAT. Acutal important issues like character interraction, atmosphere and such aren't AS important as tit and gore. Not saying there AREN'T horror movies just about tit and gore, but it seems to be a big belief that THAT'S all what makes horror, when it clearly isn't. Horror shouldn't be made with a 13-year old boy's mentality.

magnaderalpha, I agree with you, and must add that a NOES remake is PARTICULARLY one that will not translate well to modern film making. It shone at the time because it stood out as a more sophisticated horror film in a saturated wasteland of low budget crap. It fought against the cliches of the time. But, twenty years have passed, and Freddy has become more of a cliche than Jason. Freddy is the reason sequels suck. But, Freddy is also usually the 13 year old boys first glimpse into the realm of horror, unfortunately, so seeing it remade any other way is impossible for me. Um, yeah.

remember the days when remakes where made by writers and directors with some kind of vision, unlike now where a studio buys the rights and then just appoints some clueless newby to make it?

just make a PREQUEL with robert englund as fred kruger the child killer, i want to see this story and robert play him one last time and the origin of fred kruger is interesting, i rather enjoyed the minute flashback in freddy vs jason showing robert englund as fred kruger alive in human form, he looks like a eerie villian on his own , i want to watch the becoming of freddy kruger, not some half assed risky remake that will probably do nothing but fatten someones wallet, and not satisfaction as a fan of the series. the house that freddy built deserves more respect bitch

I always said i'd boycott Hollywood Horror if they remade NOES. I really hope they don't go through with it!