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So sad the original series has ended :-(

posted 15 years ago by geffers262
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I'm watching the doc and it got me thinking that it's a shame that the original series with Robert etc has ended, the new film was ok i suppose but it wasn't the elm street we know and love. I wonder if for the first time in history the producers opt to return to Robert Englund and co for the next one and forget about the remake entirely. Bob shaye, wes, robert etc are all opposed to the remake but don't they still own the rights? why couldn't they stop it? anyone know?

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[–] donstuie 15 years ago

You answered your own question, they don't own the rights. Bob Shaye is credited as executive producer but has no influence on the film whatsoever.

[–] JohnnyCave 15 years ago

New Line is a part of Time Warner now so they really have no power to stop any production or to make any demands. Sad, yes.

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[–] james_oblivion 15 years ago

Bob shaye, wes, robert etc are all opposed to the remake but don't they still own the rights? why couldn't they stop it? anyone know?

No, they don't own the rights...and Robert is not opposed to the remake, and never has been. He's the only one who seems to understand and appreciate the fact that the character he helped create and define has become bigger than himself, or that original series of films. That he's like Dracula or Frankenstein now, open to new interpretation in years to come. He's genuinely flattered by that, and rightly so.

The others, meanwhile, indulge in sour grapes, despite the fact that some of the same people who call the remake a "foolish" idea were actively involved in creating utter crap like Freddy's Dead. Now what wasn't foolish about THAT movie? The irony of seeing these people, who sequelized Freddy Krueger until he became a joke, bitterly object to the very notion of a remake is quite comical.

[–] OliverGbyrne 15 years ago

Agree in all the magazine I have read Robert actually rooted for the remake...I am curious if he seen it yet,and what he thinks about it..

[–] BouncyX 15 years ago

part of me would have loved to see new sequels with Robert but at the same time 8 movies is a lot. personally i think having FVJ being the final movie in the Englund era was a perfect way to end it. that movie was rumored and wished for by so many for so long that it makes a fitting end to his "reign of terror".

although when the whole horror remake craze started again, i would wonder how cool it would be to remake Nightmare and use Robert again. to see him play the same role but in a different way, could have been cool and interesting. and i think it woulda been the first time an actor played the same role in a remake of their own movie.

some still have hope they might make the prequel story of the pre-burned Freddy with Robert but i recently read somewhere that New Line dropped that idea for the remake so who knows....but that would be cool to see as well.

[–] OliverGbyrne 15 years ago

I think there's more chance of part two of the remake then anything else...