Last year Derek Mears, the new Jason Voorhees, was welcomed to the Scream Awards. This year Jackie Earle Haley walked the red carpet of the 2009 Scream Awards (airing Tuesday, October 27 at 10:00PM ET/PT) to talk about his role as your new Freddy Krueger in the upcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Below you can read about how they're still working on his voice, what he thinks of the fan reactions and how pleased his is with the final act of the film.
Since being on set and watching the San Diego Comic Con panel, there has been a lot of talk about Jackie’s voice in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. He tells Bloody-Disgusting they’re not quite done yet.
“We’re still getting it out there. We’ve actually been working on that for the last 3 days, doing some ADR work and will probably continue. It’s a normal process of post-production,” he adds.
As regular members of Bloody Disgusting, you guys all know what the fan reaction has been, Haley is thrilled by the positivity thus far.
“I’ve been pretty thrilled with all of the responses, it looks really cool. A lot of people wish it was Robert [in the remake] and I get that,” he continues,”he’s made this character iconic and he’s iconic as well, it’s a tough thing and hopefully when the movie comes out people will dig it.”
Spoiler Warning
I big portion of the remake focuses on “micro naps”, small moments of sleep that are induced by the brain after an intense lack of sleep.
“It was awesome, it was a lot of fun and a lot of work and late hours too. They really did a good job with the sequences, especially the pharmacy, but I don’t want to give too much away.”
But the real question is, after the torture of being turned into Freddy every single day, would Jackie be willing to do it all again if a sequel were ever made?
“You know, I would imagine, I’m signed on so we’ll see how it goes,” he tells BD. “It’s looking really good, I’ve been in there working on the film and finally seeing some sequences and I’m really thrilled with what Sam and the guys are putting together!”
You can all check it out when the nightmares begin on April 20, 2010.
Not big on remakes but for some reason am really stoked for this one. I loved the original Nightmare but really did not like what Freddy evolved into at all so am not that stuck on Englund. Haley's look and voice(even as is) are fantastic. Looking forward to this big time.
I agree that robert is iconic as Freddy, and he is Freddy in my eyes, but when they do these remakes i think its great and important that they do it all fresh, new cast, new twist on the story. That makes it a new movie, fresh start, not a just a remake or a shallow sequel.I mean they could bring robert and heather and all the old cast back but who wants to see a bunch of middle aged has beens(although great in their time) on the screen today.(although cameos would be cool!!) I personally was not to thrilled with Jackie as Freddy, never was big on the idea, but he looks great so far as I've seen, and he might just ad his own personal flare as robert did..
I agree that robert is iconic as Freddy, and he is Freddy in my eyes, but when they do these remakes i think its great and important that they do it all fresh, new cast, new twist on the story. That makes it a new movie, fresh start, not a just a remake or a shallow sequel.I mean they could bring robert and heather and all the old cast back but who wants to see a bunch of middle aged has beens(although great in their time) on the screen today.(although cameos would be cool!!) I personally was not to thrilled with Jackie as Freddy, never was big on the idea, but he looks great so far as I've seen, and he might just ad his own personal flare as robert did..
I am actually excited about this remake and the fact that the film maker was smart in his casting of Freddy. Jackie is obviously very talented.
Thanks for the update, Mr. Disgusting.
i STILL am at a loss as to why everyone thinks Jackie's voice was "bad" or whatever. i think it sounded wonderfully creepy (especially when you see the trailer in the theater with good speakers). Jackie's great and i welcome his take on Freddy. i haven't liked Englund's take on Freddy since part 1.
I still don't understand why people think that Freddy HAS to be Robert Englund. Could you imagine if Bela Lagosi was THE ONLY DRACULA EVER ON SCREEN because he made the character iconic ? We would never see another Dracula film ever. And who can say Gary Oldham didn't do an awesome job as Dracula. Robert Englund won't live forever.
my only complaint with his voice was that it sounded normal. Robert's voice was obviously played with in post production but even when you'd see behind the scenes footage, he still changed it during filming so it wasnt a complete post-production job. i'm sure they'r playing with Jackie's as well but since he spoke normally while filming, i hope it doesnt hurt it. either way as a HUGE Elm. Street fan i'm still excited to see this. it'll be weird but cool nonetheless.
the difference between Robert and Bela is that Robert has been Freddy in 8 movies, 2 seasons of a televison series and numerous amounts of tv/video appearances and we saw him play the role as recently as 2003. Bela played Dracula twice, maybe 3 times and that was all well over 60yrs ago.
To ABloodyMess and convicsik. Robert Englund and Heather are no has beens, they will always be known as the real freddy krueger and nancy thompson no matter how many years go by. I really could careless how freddy evolved in the sequels, he proved that he could be both scary and funny which is how I liked it. Everyone including jackie is just a copy, heather is nancy and robert is freddy, period.
you guys who are bashing this new remake need to quit. you guys are completely to busy, watchign the old ones with a cosed mind, thinking that this movie is gonan tank. we dont know yet, dont bash the movie when weve only seen a total of 2:30 muinutes/seconds of the movie, we cant judge the entire movie nad jackies preformance off that! keep an open mind, and stop clinging to the old series. the wes craven series is over, if you want more freddy your gonna have to with with times, Englund is to old and the Craven sage is done. This is a remake, a new begigning for Freddy krueger, dont bash this movie when weve only seen 2 and a half muinutes of a skinpy trailer!
lookin forward to this!! & I really like what little snippets of voice & look we see in the trailer!! Jackie Earle Haley was by far the best thing about Watchmen and was incredible in Little Children. If this disappoints as much as the Friday the 13th remake then I'll be officially DONE with this damn studio.
yeah i heard awhile back they were still working on freddy's voice and look so from what was in the teaser trailer isn't gonna be in the final film the voice didn't bother me that much but his look did
I think the remake would have been a great opportunity to keep Englund and go back to the original idea Craven had of having Kruger be an older man.
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