Comments on: Billy Bob Cast As Freddy Kreuger?

By: Tery De Cutler

Tery De Cutler — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:31:05 +0000

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By: Tery De Cutler

Tery De Cutler — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:30:26 +0000

i dont think thorton has what it takes to be freddy. englund is the real kreuger. the voice the face and humor when he kills. thats not billy. no way!!!!!!!!!!!

By: wxph8r

wxph8r — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:17:31 +0000

Am I really supposed to care about this? What made Freddy Krueger so great was its originality, at the time there was no horror film that even came close to Nightmare on Elm street! It just upped the genre’ in every way possible, stirring fans from every direction.

This is a different time and your no longer doing something original. Enough with the remakes and sequels Hollywood! Bring us something ground breaking and try not to steal it from an Asian horror flick if that is all possible.

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:24:00 +0000

No. There’s no way.

By: cib3k

cib3k — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:11:03 +0000

So they need a new actor and they find one who’s just as old as Englund. Who might as well reprise his role but he can’t, probably because this is considered a reimagining or whatever they think it is. God, I hate Hollywood. Each time they get to a certain point with a franchise and profits are dropping they start retelling the same story with slight alterations so it will make again money.

I wonder how it will be if books were the same as movies. So that at each 10-20 years we would have writers who would rewrite The Great Expectations, War and Peace and so on – trying to make them better ’cause, you know, they aren’t that great anymore and they need fixing. Literature would be almost dead; the same stories retold over and over and over. That’s exactly what happens to movies today. Reboots, remakes, sequels, prequels, spin-offs and an almost complete lack of originality.

By: Supernetuser

Supernetuser — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:52:01 +0000

Tis the season for remakes I guess. Remake after remake. That’s more frightening than the actual Freddy Kreugar movies themselves. What’s wrong with acting for just a paycheck anyway? If you need the money, you need the money. I’m with everybody who says there is no Freddy without the original Freddy. This is why remakes won’t make it very well if they don’t use the original actors.

By: miles

miles — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:20:59 +0000

that is a pretty good choice if you ask me.

although……robert englund’s tongue in cheek portrayal really made the character for me, and i get the feeling that the tongue in cheek spirit of the character might be lost. guess it isn’t a huge deal.

in my opinion the real problem with this project is bay, i like alot of his stuff…but i really don’t get elm street vibes off of his other projects.

it irks me that it will probably get the pg-13 ‘nu-horror’ treatment…for some reason i don’t think that approach really works for an immortal, dream trottin’, muderin’ pedofile that was burnt alive and can take any form he pleases.

when you strip away the camp value, krueger a powerful, iconic character that is a symbol of fear for an entire generation. i would hate to see his spirit be diluted.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:18:00 +0000

Ben Foster Would RULE as Krueger!

By: Shane the War Journalist

Shane the War Journalist — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:52:50 +0000

I, like many people already here, loved the original. Everything before FVJ was fine. But I think that since FVJ was considered part of the original series, I firmly believe we need a decent remake. I’ll just say it: Michael Bay makes me nervous. He did alright with Transformers, but didn’t seem to know what it was all about. I think Thornton may be able to pull it off, but not if he mails in his effort like in several other films. If they can disguise his voice and face well enough, then I think it will be okay. I want to hear people in the theatre saying “Who played Freddie?” in disbelief. In my deepest thoughts, there is no Freddie without Robert Englund. I simply don’t believe Billy Bob could do better. He needs a cameo or something. I had a teacher who once met Robert Englund on-site for the shooting of an episode of “Freddie’s Nightmares”. He was apparently the last guy in the episode. But if Robert gives his blessing, then I suppose my worries may lift a little. Hopefully, it will end up like “The Dark Knight” when they never spoke to Jack about Heath getting the Joker role, but it did stellar anyway.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:32:51 +0000

Ran out of money on the original, eh? Well, they did wonders with what they had back in 1984. Low tech shadows and slight of hand, the brilliance of Johnny Depp's character's death scene...and somehow "it will be better" with CGI FX? Okay.... As for Billy Bob Thorton. At first, I don't really see it, and then I remembered that if he keeps choosing stuff like School For Scoundrels, the Bad News Bears remake, Mr. Woodcock, the mildly entertaining misfire known as The Astronaut Farmer and The Ice Harvest, and even his best role since Sling Blade (and a film I loved) Davy Crockett in The Alamo even that didn't make money. So, someone out there offers him a role of Freddy because he may be needing cheap ass work. Bleh. Screw that. Impress me, people and if you go through with this BS, give him the John Saxon role instead. Thank me later.