Yesterday we brought you the latest chatter on a sequel to Friday the 13th, now we've got exclusive word on some of the deleted scenes you'll find on the DVD (one that's quite interesting), along with an update on Platinum Dunes' remake of The Birds. Beware that spoilers do follow beyond the break and check out Jason Voorhees' return to theaters on February 13th.
**SPOILER WARNING**
Bloody-Disgusting caught up with Platinum Dunes producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form after last night’s press screening of their FRIDAY THE 13TH remake. We spoke about how the screening went and also had the chance to delve into the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake, THE BIRDS and what they think of the 3-D horror movement.
“That was the first time that we’d seen the whole movie in front of an audience,” Brad Fuller told Bloody-Disgusting. “We loved it. It’s always nerve-wracking when you’re seeing new material in the movie because you have no idea how it’s gonna work out. We thought it went pretty well.”
The screening included some new material that the producers hadn’t yet shown an audience. “There were three sequences that we’d never seen in front of an audience before,” says Fuller. “The opening credits where Mama Voorhees gets it in the head, the reveal of the mask and Jason’s death.”
During one early cut of the film, Jason’s first kill had the nerve to urinate near the grave of Ms. Voorhees. Fuller says the scene just wasn’t necessary to establish Jason’s motivation. “When we edited the movie, we just felt it didn’t cut in well,” says Fuller. “It threw off the scene.”
Fuller, Form and director Marcus Nispel crammed all the gore and boobs they could possibly get past the MPAA, but they promise plenty of leftovers for the DVD and Blu-ray. “[It will have] all the stuff wouldn’t have gotten past the MPAA,” Andrew Form says with a laugh.
“There definitely will be some really fun stuff on the DVD,” Fuller adds. “Deleted scenes, alt scenes, an extended unrated cut of the movie with probably at least ten minutes of footage cut into the movie.”
Now that Fuller and Form have undergone the fan scorn of FRIDAY fanatics and lived to tell about it, they are about to jump right back into the fires for a remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. “We’re going to get screwed either [way] on both of them,” Form says of the fan reaction. “We feel it on every movie. The fans hate us, they hate our movies… We have never been welcomed with open arms.”
Nightmare will not be an origin story, per se, but the origin of Freddy Krueger is indeed crucial to making the movie work, especially for audiences that haven’t seen the original. “We did an origin story in our second CHAINSAW movie,” said Fuller. “I think if it’s a straight-ahead origin story, it’s problematic because people know how the movie’s going to end.”
“The balance is, ‘How can we get as much of Freddy Krueger’s background into this story so that people who are not huge fans know what’s going on and at the same time satisfy fans like yourself?’ That balance is a challenging thing to find and we’re still working on finding it. I’m not sure that we’ve cracked it exactly yet.”
Much like FRIDAY, the producers don’t plan to make fans wait too long for the iconic character to surface in proper form. “It’s not going to be on page 75 that he puts on the sweater and the gloves,” says Fuller. “What really excites us about NIGHTMARE is that line between reality and the dream and the audience never knowing when you’re in a dream and [when] it’s literally too late.”
The nature of a NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake will require some CG work, but Fuller and Form are quick to promise not to overdo it. “There’s an enormous amount we can do in-camera,” says Fuller. “When you get into the dream world, which is amazing, you use CG, but you don’t use too much of it.”
“The fans hate the CG,” adds Form. “They hate it. We don’t want to piss them off more than we already do.”
NIGHTMARE is next for Fuller and Form. If FRIDAY opens big, there’s certainly the possibility of a sequel. Somewhere in the mix, Platinum Dunes also has plans to do a remake of THE BIRDS with director Martin Campbell. “Whenever [Campbell] wants to make it and wherever he wants to make it, we are there to make it with him,” says Fuller. “The script is being worked on now and that script should go within the next month or so and then we’ll see how that plays out.”
To close out the interview, we asked the producers what they thought of the recent wave of 3-D releases and whether they might consider it for NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. “We haven’t talked about doing [NIGHTMARE in 3-D], but again, we don’t have a director yet either. Maybe the guy who directs the movie, if that’s what he wants to do, then we’re open to having that discussion.”
“We are absolutely looking into 3-D as a viable alternative,” continues Fuller. “We don’t want to make a movie that feels gimmicky for the sake of making a 3-D movie, but if we have a script that fits into that, we would certainly look into it.”
I'm kinda looking forward to Friday the 13th. While it certainly doesn't need a remake to appeal to a newer generation, all the news so far sounded great.
The Birds on the other hand ... Did nobody learn from the Psycho remake? Hitchcock movies should be left alone, they work well and in many, many cases (especially with the Birds) can't be improved upon.
I will definitely be picking up the DVD, ASAP. Platinum Dunes are probably the only ones that really get me into liking remakes. Their attempts have satisfied me so far.
did he just say that it will be on page 75 when Freddy puts on the glove and sweater? I swear to god I hate this guy the more and more he talks. i cant believe there going to make a big what the fuck moment out of a sweater, as if it means anything that he wears that particular sweater, or that it has any kind of meaning at all. i seriously cant believe he thinks the fans think like that, i bet you that if he had his hands on the childs play remake, they would go out of there way to try and explain why chucky swears so much, and that it has something to do with his creation. man these guys dont get it.
Jasonlives, Fuller stated that it’s NOT going to be on page 75 that he puts on the sweater and the gloves. Jesus, would it hurt to simply go over that one sentence before bashing the guy? Or am I sensing anger venting because of the Friday reboot? It's like people try to find anything to talk bad about these producers. *sigh*
I like the fact he at least acknowledges that many horror fans are sick of remakes, some producers seem oblivious to it. I am looking forward to this.Jason rules, plain and simple.
So glad to hear NOES will not be an origin story and that they are aware we fans don't want too much CGI. All the previous NOES films had no CGI and the effects were outstanding for their time.
I hope that when they talk about Freddy's past they don't mean any stupid flashback back story (so that we understand who Freddy is). When I first saw the original nightmare I did not need any more info on Freddy but what I learned from Nancy's mom, and maybe the intro in the film's title to understand the character and find him also mysterious and terrifying.
Oh, and about NOES and CGI, personally I don't mind having CGI in the movie. What I will find annoying is the idea that dreams = crazy circus with Freddy. Please, no more of that. Also, enough with dreams = personal fears of victim = crazy circus with Freddy taking advantage of that fear.
I agree Rocky Horror. If we see a guy in a Nightmare film who's scared of spiders, we figure he'll be killed by spiders or some giant Freddy version. Nightmare 3 did the dreams the best I think, by turning this people like against them. The tv kill comes to mind.
I know a backstory for Freddy does not seem to be popuplar, but I WANT it. I've seen the original 50 times, I want something new and fresh. I think they could spend 1/2 hour or so and give us some insight to why Freddy is what he is before the burning.
"scream10" obviously i read it backwards, but the point remains, telling us that it is not going to be on page 75 just says that it will happen earlier, i dont understand the infatuation this remake team has by putting insignificant details to the forefront and making story elements out of them.
Freddy needs a begining. We need to see the event that turned him into a suspect in the disaperance of a child. then you have to follow that up with the legal blunder that got him back on the streets again. Then you show the group of kids who decided to burn him for it. Then you cut to the future with the new victims. I'm all for CGI. The fans don't hate it?!?!?!?! Show me where it says that! If a CGI Krueger got Robert back in to play him. I'd be beyond happy. I think robert wants out because he's tired of people always calling him Freddy and asking him to dol the laugh or the thing wiht your hand, and those who would win between you and michael. Roberts tired of the fans and being trapped as the K-man. He wont admit it, but he hears it day in day out. Well if he doesnt play him for the remake he will hear shit like. That guy was a better Freddy than you or You were better than that guy. Robert you will always be Freddy. But theres a chance you could be called that other Freddy no one likes anymore.. Shit that would suck ass wouldn't it to hear people say shit like that right to your face, to see some other punk saying he's the new freddy now. Like Andrew does when he says he's the real Leatherface... That "The fans hate CGI" is bullshit. I Demand a CGI Burnt Version of Krueger! Look what CGI did for Twoface in TDK. Freddy has been makeup for 20 years and it always looked the same. even when they tried to reinvent it, in fact it was more complexe in part 1 than it was in any other film because it had several layers....
What you are saying sounds like an excuse Brad! An excuse to save money! The work involved to animate a A CGI burnt Freddy, even if it was just the head would cost millions. Don't lie!
Platinum Dunes are probably the only people I respect in terms of remaking horror films. I can't believe they say that so many people hate them. I think they are great with the way they approach things. I'm glad it won't take until page 75 for Freddy to put on his sweater and glove. That is where Rob Zombie went wrong. He devoted way too much time on Michael's origin in Halloween. It seemed like almost an hour before it started to pick up. People forget that what made the originals so great was that there was a sense of mystery because they didn't explain so much. For instance we didn't find out the Michael and Laurie connection until the end of Halloween 2. We never knew who the crazy guy was in the original Black Christmas. We didn't know the motivation of The Birds in Hitchcock's classic. In Nightmare on Elm Street, we found out about who Freddy was briefly by Nancy's mother, etc. You get the idea. At least when Platinum Dunes goes into a backstory of the killer, it is kept short like in their Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel. Keep it up guys!
Wow, you must really be a fan thephantomk. So much so that you think kids killed Freddy. I'm sorry to break it to you, but it was the parents.
Also, you may like CGI but majority of us fans don't. So Dunes is right by saying we hate it. And a CGI FREDDY! That would have to be the worst suggestion I've heard. CG can be used to touch up the make-up a little and that's about it. Brads a smart man and knows more about what we want than you do. I'm surprised you're not complaining that Jason isn't CG.
Lastly I don't think Robert really cares that he's not going to be Freddy. He said himself that he was getting too old for all that make-up and that he'd like to see someone else give it a shot. He has his fans out there and is not going to loose them because he's not Freddy in the remake. If anything, it'll make more people aware of him in the other films.
DO people not realize that if Hollywood came up with a movie that to them had never been done, half the people on this site would find a movie to compare it to!! In my opinion the only remake that Platinum Dunes did right was The Amityville Horror. TCM was nothing like the original (which scared the piss out of me when I first saw it) and The Hitcher was just boring as hell (kinda like the original). I'm a huge fan of F13 and have HIGH hopes for this movie!!!
Most of it sounds good, I'm alright with a sequel to the new Friday the 13th, but I'm not sure about "The Birds" That was a classic, but it was ALFRED HITCHCOCKS!! please don't remake that..that'll really F*** with people. Also I'm ready for a new NOES!! THAT'LL BE AWESOME!!
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