Freddy’s NOT dead! A new ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ film is happening
Fred Heads unite because Freddy is coming back in a big way!
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that a brand new ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ is currently being worked on over at Paramount with their new genre label “Paramount Primal”
The Craven estate is licensing the U.S. rights for the film, and both Craven’s widow, Iya Labunka, and his son Jonathan Craven will produce the new film alongside Marc Toberoff. J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, who are the producers behind Barbarian and Friendship, will be leading the project.
“We look forward to bringing the world of Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street to a new and completely engaged generation of fans,” said Labunka in a statement. “We know that Wes would have been thrilled to see how horror is taking its long overdue place in the cultural canon. We can’t wait for all of us to sit together in a dark theatre – around the campfire of today – as the next chapter of the Nightmare story unfolds.”
Toberoff is no stranger to copyright law, as he was an attorney for many years and is now a producer to help horror franchises like Nightmare and ‘Friday the 13th’ regain the rights to their original creator.
There are no further details at this time regarding the film, but the news was shocking to horror fans, and it could lead to more projects in the future.
