Nightmare On Elm Street Remake: Wes Craven Doesn’t Want To Make It

So, a Nightmare on Elm Street remake is planned… but don’t expect original Nightmare director Wes Craven to have anything to do with it. Craven says he’s not interested in remaking the Freddie Krueger horror classic.

Wes Craven commented on the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, saying, “That’d be a tough one to re-see… If you move on from the films you’ve made – which I have tried always to move on – then it’s like, ‘That’s in the past. It’s had his life.’ If they make a better film, maybe it will eclipse the original. I don’t know. If they don’t, then the original will look even better.”

Craven also said, “I guess now they’re (studio bosses) moving towards remakes rather than sequels, because, at some point, you can’t justify another sequel – but you can remake the original, because the audiences have gone through two or three generations.”