Update: Englund Shrugs Off Freddy Krueger Recasting

As a footnote to Travis’ earlier post, Italian horror site Bad Taste has an interview with Robert Englund where he comments on the remake’s decision to exclude him from the character role he made famous. From the interview:

“I consider the original version of Nightmare On Elm Street a classic of this genre, but I think there is always room for new interpretations by using the new technology. In the past, they were talking about a prequel. Anyway, I’m too old for this new version, otherwise it would be Freddie Vs. Viagra…”

He goes on to say he respects Michael Bay, having seen and enjoyed Transformers with his son, and that he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of a cameo in the Nightmare remake. Perhaps directing his own upcoming horror project, The Viji, is keeping his mind off things.

A Nightmare On Elm Street isn’t the only Wes Craven film getting the remake treatment. According to Fangoria, Last House On The Left has just finished casting and will be produced by Craven along with Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th – The original. And the remake. Sigh.).

Remember this moment, movie geeks. Remember this moment 30 years from now when your children, or your children’s children ask you about a time in the cinematic world where there were these things called original ideas. And you can laugh and tell them how Michael Bay killed those things for good in the year 2008, or how maybe they were always just an illusion, and then you can sit down together and watch Last House On The Left 21, or Rambo 57 or the remake of the prequel of the sequel to the direct to DVD adaptation of the video game of Jaws 3-D. Damn it all.