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SDCC ’09: ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Footage Description!
We’re reporting live from the San Diego Comic Con where Warner Bros. Pictures just showed the first ever footage from New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes’ reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which now arrives in theaters April 30, 2010. We’re gonna pop up the Q+A when it shows up online, but until then, read on for the footage description.
The clip opens in an exterior shot of an old abandoned factory where Freddy Krueger (as a man) is being chased by a mob to the building. Clancy Brown’s character lights a bottle with fire, Freddy yells, “What do you think I did?”
He gets lit up, lights on fire, runs outside screaming.
Cut to the twins, one with a slash in her clothes.
Shot of Freddy’s hat.
Back to twins jump roping.
Close-up of Freddy’s glove scratching steel.
Freddy’s hat agan on a box, silence, Freddy’s eyes appear behind them.
They show the girl in a blood body bag in the school.
Close-up of scratchhhhhhh, sparks.
Rooney Mara (Nancy) is in the boiler room. It’s dark Freddy is there, walking towards her.
Flashes begin, we see all sorts of imagery ranging from Tina floating to the ceiling, slashes and then LOGO. Bam.
“Ready or not, here I come.” – Jackie Earle Hely as your new Freddy Krueger.
Scrrrrratttcchhhhh….
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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