I agree that this movie will suck. It doesn’t matter how much talent they throw into it, it’s still just going to be another lame horror movie.
Horror is a dead genre. All of the films nowadays are either sequels/prequels or reboots. THe rest that aren’t still suck.
I feel sorry for Haley though, poor guy’s going to be typecast in these kind of roles.

He really was great as rorschach, i hated watchmen as a whole but i loved his character

I do not think the new James Bond movies are a reboot. A new actor was brought in to fill the shoes of a characters that has been played by five other people, thus they brought in a new take on the character. That franchise is always changing. The Bond character is timeless and as long as they have somebody to fill his shoes there will continue to be new Bond movies. As the actors change, they will not be rebooting, just continually creating new stories. Until QoS, most if not all other bond movies really had no connection to the ones before it accept for maybe actors.

That is what i said when i first saw Little Children. If my memory serves me correctly his name was Kelly and he was a total badass riding his dirtbike around the field. When i heard that they were making a Nightmare on elm st. remake he was one of the first people that i thought could actually pull it off. He has molesting experience.

I agree. First, I think they probably won’t change Freddy’s look too much…although since it’s a remake, they’ll likely do something a little different to distinguish Haley from Englund.

Second, yes, the original sequels always seemed to get cheesier in terms of Freddy’s look (makeup).

i believe “casino royale” is a reboot

Does Casino Royale qualify as a reboot? Its set before all of the other Bond movies, but have they claimed its outside of ‘that’ bond universe? I ask because of Judi Dench / M, which would be an example of a reboot starring a previous actor…

1- Good actor

2- While Haley has played a child abuser before, that’s true. How many gangsters has Al Pacino played?

3- Overall, the remake of Elm Street does seem like a bad idea. But maybe it might prove to be a good one. I’d rather see who else they line up for this…and what they make of it.

You are correct in saying the sequels to Elm Street slowly lost elements of suspense and/or horror, although some of them (not entirely a bad thing) balanced it with visual and makeup effects. Eventually it was about the one liners and Freddy becoming “a pop culture phenom”, which was noted in the best of the series since the first film- “New Nightmare”

and I hope Jackie Earle Haley has more of *that* Freddy look.