HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The revitalized "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise is beginning to take shape.
Wesley Strick, the talented screenwriter behind such films as the comic-horror "Arachnophobia," Martin Scorsese's remake of "Cape Fear, and the videogame adaptation "Doom," has been hired to pen the installment's return to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In January, it was first announced that New Line was engaged in talks with horror production company Platinum Dunes to re-launch the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie series, the studio's most lucrative franchise until "Lord of the Rings."
The first "Nightmare" movie, which was written and directed by Wes Craven, was released in 1984. The film's success led to nine movies and two TV series, creating one of the most popular villains in history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund.
The film revolved around Krueger, a serial child killer murdered by angry parents, who returns with a burned face and a razor glove to haunt teenagers and kill them in their sleep.
The producers — Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form — hope to focus portions of the new movie on Krueger's backstory. According to the trade publication, the new project will maintain the "high school setting and delve deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Krueger himself."
The newest installment is expected to be ready in time for the original film's 25th anniversary.
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