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First Look At The New Freddy Krueger
There was a lot of complaining when it was announced that the great Robert Englund would not be returning as Freddy Krueger for the new Nightmare on Elm Street relaunch. To me it made sense. It’s a new beginning for the franchise, so you NEED to change actors. I love Englund… but you need a new Freddy for a new start.
Replacing him wasn’t going to be easy, but they ended up making the PERFECT choice when they cast Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach from The Watchmen).
Anyway, the good folks over at Coming Soon are giving us our first peek at what Freddy is looking like. He’s still in the shadows here, but they are CLEARLY not moving far away from the classic look of the character. What do you think?
from what I can tell it looks like classic Freddy. Can’t wait to see a better shot of the face.
My guess is that we are going to little change with the make-up.
The look is always going to be classic, what determines how good it’s gonna be(I think) will be how much of Haley’s interpretation of Krueger comes through the makeup.
Yeah I second that…not much of a peek here but it will be the performance that determines his success.
That pic (I know it’s Jackie Earle Hailey) But it reminds me so much of Rorschach
Holy shit I would have never thought that! Now that you mention it he does.
I personally still think Hailey should get nominated for best actor.
Yep, this design is definitely “Classic Freddy.” Of course, all that really matters is whether or not Haley’s performance will come through, though after seeing him in Watchmen, I have the utmost confidence in Haley.
I will admit i was very anti-remake nightmare. That is until they announced Hailey as Freddy. I love this pic and I hope this is going to be the feel for the entire film. I want a HORROR/SLASHER movie. Not a gore fest or M. Night Shamalyan creepy story with a twist. I want this movie to make me not want to go to sleep just like the orginal films did when I was eight years old.
The funny thing is, I can’t help but think that when Haley speaks as Freddy, people are going to be like, “Man why is he using the Rorshack voice?” You know people will. They did it with Bale and his ‘Batman’ voice in Terminator.
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WTF do you mean “clearly”?????
I can’t see a damned thing!!!!
I make out part of the burned ear, the hat, one finger knife scratching a wall (chalkboard?) but I can’t get too excited about it, I can’t compare old vs new makeup (it should be said that the question itself is irreverent anyway, the Freddy makeup on Englund had altered in various films.)
But I am not thrilled with the promo shot.
What a jip.
Cool pic indeed, brings back fawned horror memories, but it’s really not that much to go on.
I want to see his face, see if they can make a burnt dead guy walking around look even better then they did before.
Yeah still creeps the hell of me.So they are going in a good direction.
Lol, poor Haley, if he keeps doing these psycho roles he’s going to get typecast.
Haley is a perfect choice, loved him in Watchmen i think he can pull it off. I actually liked Friday the Reboot hopefully i will enjoy this one even tho they didn’t have to reboot a classic
If he plays Freddie as good as he played Rorshack the movie should be good then.
Not a horror fan but that is sick as hell…I’m glad they didn’t do a total remake…
THE IS TO DARK HOPE THE MOVIE IS JUS AS DARK AND IT BETTER BE BAD ASS