Robert Englund: Craven’s kids would be fools to not reboot Elm Street again

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Robert Englund said he'd love to return for a NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS reboot and he thinks the series deserves a good prequel as well. And today he says that Wes Craven's kids, Jonathan and Jessica, would be fools to not just go ahead and start from scratch.

Sorry, Jackie Earle Haley. 

Englund says:

Their choice is whether to go with completely original stuff or whether to reboot the franchise for another generation. That's the decision, I think it all lies now with the Craven estate, all the rights have returned to them. And I know that both Wes' son Jonathan and his daughter [Jessica], they're really smart, talented people and they work in the industry, so I totally trust what they're gonna do. I just know that there are some terrific scripts over the last, let's say 15 years, there's been some really interesting scripts and they're sitting on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. And I just hope that they read all of those, as well as the new ones because a couple of those old ones were really interesting. There's one or two prequel scripts that are pretty interesting.

He adds:

Everything gets remade and everybody brings a new interpretation and a new value, sometimes better, sometimes not, but I know they're gonna reboot the franchise. They'd be fools not to, especially with all the new technology and effects they have available now, that we can enhance this nightmare/dreamscape with. The landscape of the mind and the subconscious using stuff that we discovered during Inception or What Dreams May Come, that Robin Williams film. There's so many new kinds of CGI and tricks that we have that would just really enhance the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.

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