{"id":1867,"date":"2006-10-02T02:28:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-10-02T02:28:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T02:28:44","slug":"fango-reports-on-the-rumored-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/fango-reports-on-the-rumored-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fango reports on the rumored prequel."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>From Fangoria<\/font><\/a>: Director John (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) McNaughton\u2019s name has been attached to a NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET prequel for quite some time now (we first reported on it here<\/font><\/a>), but no news has been heard about the project for months. So Fango asked McNaughton (whose MASTERS OF HORROR entry HAECKEL\u2019S TALE, pictured, hits DVD November 14 from Anchor Bay) what was up. \u201cWell, [New Line and I] talked about it, and I\u2019m still waiting to hear back from them,\u201d he says. \u201cThey approached me because of HENRY, since they want to make a serious film about Freddy Krueger and his early days as a school janitor. Freddy\u2019s just a living person at that point, and this would seem more like a real story. It wouldn\u2019t be supernatural, and it will recount the days when he used to kidnap young girls\u2014and actually also boys\u2014to rape and murder them.\u201d<\/p>\n

While both McNaughton and New Line seem to have a pretty good idea of what they want from the film, a script still has yet to be written. \u201cThis process obviously takes a long time and there\u2019s no actual screenplay yet, just an idea of what the movie should be about. Let\u2019s say I haven\u2019t recieved the check yet,\u201d the director laughs. \u201cHowever, I do have a writer in mind whom I would like to write the new NIGHTMARE: His name is R.J. Tsarov, and he wrote the stage play I just directed. He\u2019s a true talent and has a very original vision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Fangoria: Director John (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) McNaughton\u2019s name has been … Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t