Variety reports that actor Jackie Earle Haley – most recently seen as Rorschach in WATCHMEN – has been cast to play Freddy Krueger in New Line Cinema’s upcoming remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, which is to be produced in conjunction with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. The film will be directed by Samuel Bayer, working from a script by Wesley Strick (who wrote Martin Scorsese’s remake of CAPE FEAR). Shooting starts in Chicago next month.
New Line and Platinum Dunes recently collaborated on the remake of FRIDAY THE 13TH, another film that relaunched an ’80s horror icon.
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