Brad Fuller talks Freddy’s new look in Nightmare reboot

Brad Fuller the producer behind Platinum Dunes recent reboot frenzy over all our beloved horror franchise’s has just revealed some new information their forthcoming reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jackie Earle Haley’s work on the film as the iconic child killer.  In Fullers recent blog post where he talks of the films shooting having completed he goes on to discuss Jackie Earle Haley’s work on the new Freddy Krueger stating:

To realize our dream of bringing him back… the way we remember him. Scary, mean and nasty. Now I know it will be hotly debated here, but I can tell you I am proud of what we did. Proud that Jackie Earle Haley was uncompromising in his desire to create a Freddy that is uniquely his own creation. Proud of Andrew Clement for his desire to create a look that will shock and scare you. You will surely recognize Freddy, but he is distinctively different, more real, and more burned. Jackie and Clement spent four hours a day painstaking applying all the make-up, appliances, texture before coming to shoot. And when we were all done at the end of the day they had to stay for at least another hour to take it off. For those of you keeping score at home that is 5 hours a day, on top of 12 hour shooting days. Those among you who are so closed-minded that you can’t fathom anyone else playing the role, you are idiots. So much time and effort put into bringing Freddy back and you dismiss him before you’ve seen his efforts, it’s just stupidity. See what we’ve done and then pass judgment; but there isn’t a person out there who can tell me Jackie isn’t a terrifying, inspired, awesome Freddy.

For the full story head on over here to the Platinum Dunes blog on Bloody Disgusting.