22 July 2008 10:08 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news
It looks as if New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes have taken the next step in resurrecting the infamous boogeyman, Freddy Krueger, as they,ve officialy begun working on a script for their remake/prequel of A Nightmare On Elm Street. Read on to see who will be writing the film, which will mark the ninth time Freddy will grace the big screen. New Line has taken a step forward in bringing Freddy back to the big screen. The Warner Bros. division has hired veteran scribe Wesley Strick (Cape Fear, Doom) to pen the relaunch of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series, the franchise that helped establish New Line into a movie player in the mid-1980s.
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