Robert Englund says Elm Street still deserves a really good prequel

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Robert Englund recently revealed that he'd love to return for a reboot of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS. And today he says he thinks the franchise deserves a really good prequel centering on Freddy's trial, acquittal, and eventual fiery death… or an animated movie…

He says:

I think that the franchise probably deserves a really good prequel. There’s never been an entire movie devoted to Freddy before he was burned and the crimes and getting caught by the police and going on trial and getting away with killing children. We know that he was set free, so to me, the great part in the prequel is gonna be the lawyers, the lawyers that get him off. These ambulance-chasing lawyers (or whatever they are) that get Freddy off and then, of course, the ending would be the vigilante parents burning him. That would be the end of the movie, but I think there’s a great story there somewhere … I think it could sustain 90 minutes.

He also said that he'd be up for an aminated movie:

Now, if they did a really expensive animated version, a graphic novel animated version, I would love to go do the voice for it. 

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Englund reiterated he'd return for a DREAM WARRIORS reboot, saying:

If, for instance, they remade Part III [Dream Warriors], which is the biggest hit of the franchise, I would love to be invited to do a cameo. I think there’s a tradition in horror movies and in remakes for the cameo. It’s a certain kind of valentine to the fans and I know that there’s a part in [Dream Warriors where] the great Priscilla Pointer … played this sort of skeptical dream therapist in the group sessions. I think it would be fun for me to play that part if there was a remake … To have me not believe in collective nightmares. Having played Freddy, everybody’s favorite nightmare, I think it would be fun for me to play a guy that doesn’t believe in nightmares.

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Englund is also up for rebooting ELM STREET, especially now that VFX have evolved so much.

With the new technologies in special effects, I think there are several sequences in several of the franchise [entries] that would really benefit from a remake with all of the technology. If you remember the effects [from Inception], those effects now have grown by lightyears in terms of what they look like and I would love to see a couple of those effects used in one of the Nightmare movies to really enhance the dream landscape, the kind of nightmare world.

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