Rumours are abound recently that if the new remake of the original Nightmare On Elm Street movie is a commercial success that New Line Cinema (now owned by someone else I believe) could well be tempted to bring back the Elm Street franchise that has effectively been dead for nearly twenty years, save from the 'New Nightmare' flick and 'Freddy Vs Jason', both of which could be seen more have spin-off's rather than part of the original series of movies in the late 80s and early 90's.
The "franchisation" of successful horror movies is a long established tradition. Indeed at times you wonder if there are many films in that genre that don't have many different Roman numerals after it's title. Saw VI, Poltergiest III, Alien IV....etc.
Of course it'd be interesting should this new movie spark interest in the Freddy films (his last big screen appearance made a profit of around $85m) is what road they'll go down.
Remakes or new material?
I think there is still some mileage on the Elm Street series and that the fact it was derailed and bastardised after the first two (some argue the first) shouldn't really dismiss the possibility of returning the character to it's roots and stripping away the jokes, puns and other comic book type side show that it has been associated with for at least the final Elm Street movies.
This could of course all be nonsense but even without the rumours and speculation, you'd think chances are if 'Freddy' does prove to be a hit once more, it'd be quite hard to resist the temptation to resurrect him on a more permanent basis.
The "franchisation" of successful horror movies is a long established tradition. Indeed at times you wonder if there are many films in that genre that don't have many different Roman numerals after it's title. Saw VI, Poltergiest III, Alien IV....etc.
Of course it'd be interesting should this new movie spark interest in the Freddy films (his last big screen appearance made a profit of around $85m) is what road they'll go down.
Remakes or new material?
I think there is still some mileage on the Elm Street series and that the fact it was derailed and bastardised after the first two (some argue the first) shouldn't really dismiss the possibility of returning the character to it's roots and stripping away the jokes, puns and other comic book type side show that it has been associated with for at least the final Elm Street movies.
This could of course all be nonsense but even without the rumours and speculation, you'd think chances are if 'Freddy' does prove to be a hit once more, it'd be quite hard to resist the temptation to resurrect him on a more permanent basis.