Who else would love to take a crack at the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise? Rising horror filmmaker Curry Barker, whose acclaimed horror movie Obsession arrives in cinema’s this weekend, certainly would.
Barker has already been tapped to direct the next installment in the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, but it seems he’s also eager to step into the dream world of Freddy Krueger.
Speaking with Polygon, Barker admitted:
“Obviously, everybody wants to do Nightmare on Elm Street. It’s kind of like the hot thing right now. I don’t even know who has the rights to that or what — I hear that the rights are pretty locked tight for that movie, but man, what a concept that has endless potential of nightmares and how trippy and weird and creepy they could get.”
He then added:
“I would love to take a crack at that.”
Barker also pointed out that Lee Cronin — director of Evil Dead Rise — recently expressed interest in reviving the franchise as well.
With Freddy Krueger still absent from the big screen after all these years, the question remains:
Who should be trusted with bringing the dream demon back? Will we ever see Freddy back on the big screen? Who would play him now that Robert Englund has openly said he’d never come back?
We’ll have to wait and see!
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