Tuesday, November 3

• Early, Negative Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street Remake Still Loves Jackie Earle Haley

  Jackie Earle Haley recently spoke to MTV about the upcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, where Haley will take over the iconic role of Freddy Krueger, and revealed that it will "be a little darker, and a little more serious" than the original. According to a review of Nightmare posted on AICN, the movie is full of dark imagery, but other than that is described as having "slick production value with little meat to sink your teeth into."

  The review's few positive mentions mostly deal with Haley's performance, calling it "no nonsense, to the point, smarmy, ugly, repulsive and just plain vile," which we swear is a compliment. Pretty good praise for a role that Haley says he won after online fans said he'd be perfect for the part.

  

  The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part of Freddy. And I thought that was pretty cool. I found out my agents were already talking to [Platinum Dunes producer] Brad [Fuller] and stuff, and it had already started. It was pretty exciting.

  Looks like the fans were right. If the early review is any indication, Haley may be the only thing that Nightmare got right, though there is plenty of time between now and the April 30, 2010, release date to make changes.

  
  
  

  A Nightmare on Elm Street - Trailer

  Posted 11/03/2009 by Ryan

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Friday, October 30

• Rob Zombie Pushed Connie Britton to Play Elm Street Mom

  Connie Britton is not known for horror movies. In fact, the Friday Night Lights actress told the NY Post that it took Rob Zombie and the casting of Jackie Early Haley to convince her to take a role in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the remake of Wes Craven's 1984 horror movie — a movie Britton admits she's only seen parts of.

  I've known Rob Zombie for a long time and he's always been telling me, "Connie, you gotta make a horror movie!" But I was still too chicken. But when I heard Jackie Earle Haley was doing Freddy, I thought that this was the time. But in retrospect, now that I've seen a good part of the original, it made no difference because what we do in the new one is so substantially different.

  Britton is playing the mother of heroine Nancy (Rooney Mara), but isn't sure that her role is as strong in the remake as it was in the original.

  The truth is, I don't think the role is as well represented in the movie as it could have been. My sense is that the focus won't be on my character as much as I previously thought, but we'll see.

  We have a feeling that the focus will likely be on Freddy hunting down Nancy, but that's just us.

  
  
  Next Showing: A Nightmare on Elm Street opens April 16, 2010

  Posted 10/30/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Connie Britton | Rob Zombie | Jackie Earle Haley | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Nightmare on Elm Street | Friday Night Lights

Friday, October 23

• Jackie Earle Haley Reacts to Nightmare on Elm Street Trailer

  Since the trailer arrived for the A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot, fan reaction has been mixed. Producer Brad Fuller did some damage control on his blog, telling fans that Freddy Krueger's look was not yet complete, nor was Jackie Earle Haley finished creating Freddy's voice. ShockTillYouDrop recently asked Haley about his reaction to the trailer, which was pretty upbeat.

  I think it's awesome and it feels great. I think the trailer looks really good. I know there's a lot of people out there that wished it was Robert [Englund] and I get that, I completely understand that. He really made the character incredibly iconic. He's iconic as well, so for me, it's just such a real honor to get to step in and have a go at that character. I think it's looking pretty good.

  That's the spirit! What do you think of the trailer? (You can watch it here, if you haven't seen it.)

  
  
  Next Showing: A Nightmare on Elm Street opens April 16, 2010

  Posted 10/23/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Brad Fuller | Jackie Earle Haley | Nightmare on Elm Street

Tuesday, October 20

• Jackie Earle Haley Discusses Green Lantern Rumors

  Over the weekend, rumors surfaced that Jackie Earle Haley was cast in the role of Green Lantern nemesis Sinestro, but Haley told MTV that nothing's official yet.

  I just heard about this, literally. I know the guys that are doing it. It's exciting to me. I heard about [Ryan Reynolds being in it]. I'd love to work with him. It makes me want to go get the Green Lantern comics and start reading up.

  So while Haley isn't cast yet, he is interested, and may end up in the part. For now, he's got time to figure out who Sinestro is.

  I don't know much about it. I'm a comics fan, but I haven't gotten into that one yet. I guess I'd better do my homework.

  
  

  Posted 10/20/2009 by Ryan

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Saturday, October 17

• Green Lantern Rumors: Jackie Earle Haley to Play Villain; Superman to Cameo

  

  In what is admittedly only a rumor at this point, Harry Knowles of Ain't it Cool News is reporting that a "pretty reliable" source has tipped him off about some very interesting Green Lantern movie news. If what AICN is reporting is true, it could be the first sign that DC Comics/Warner Bros. is listening to the fans and taking a page from Marvel Studios' playbook by making GL part of a shared universe, rather than a stand-alone universe like its Batman franchise.

  As of now, the only official cast pick is Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, the most popular Green Lantern from the DC Comics series. In the comics, Hal's arch-nemesis is Sinestro, a former Green Lantern twisted by his need for order and control, and the character is expected to be the major antagonist for the feature. According to AICN, that role could be going to Jackie Earle Haley, who famously portrayed Rorschach in Watchmen and will be starring as Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street relaunch.

  And, in news that would trump the Hayley announcement if it turns out to be true, Green Lantern may be visited by at least one other major character from the DC Universe. According to Knowles' source, Superman will make an appearance in the movie. If this rumor turns out to be true, it could be the preamble to the Justice League movie that Warner Bros. has been planning for years, in much the same way Marvel Studios is planning on interweaving characters and concepts in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and The First Avenger: Captain America leading up to The Avengers.

  
  

  Posted 10/17/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jackie Earle Haley | Ryan Reynolds | Green Lantern | Watchmen | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Monday, September 28

• Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare on Elm Street Teaser Trailer Arrives Online

  The new teaser trailer for A Nightmare on Elm Street was supposed to premiere before screenings of Zombieland, but Nightmare producer Brad Fuller revealed it would arrive online sooner on his Twitter page, which promised a MySpace reveal.

  As promised, he added the teaser trailer to his MySpace homepage at midnight. Now fans finally get a sneak peek at the remake/reboot of the Wes Craven classic with Jackie Earle Haley stepping in for Robert Englund as Freddy. Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, Kyle Gallner, and Katie Cassidy co-star with Samuel Bayer directing.

  
  
  Next Showing: A Nightmare on Elm Street opens April 16, 2010

  Posted 09/28/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jackie Earle Haley | Samuel Bayer | Nightmare on Elm Street

Friday, July 24

• First Nightmare on Elm Street Poster Arrives

  Just days ago, a shadowy photo of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street was revealed online, and now a menacing, yet equally dark, poster has finally arrived. Obviously, Haley's appearance as Freddy is being kept a secret. For now.

  Nightmare on Elm Street is a "re-imagining" of the 1984 original about a killer haunting the dreams of children with a glove filled with knives. Besides Haley, Rooney Mara and The Twilight Saga: New Moon's Kellan Lutz star.

  
  
  Next Showing: Nightmare arrives in theaters April 16, 2010.

  Posted 07/24/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Kellan Lutz | Jackie Earle Haley | Rooney Mara | Nightmare on Elm Street

Wednesday, July 22

• First Look at New Freddy in Nightmare on Elm Street Remake

  

  Surprise! He's burned and he wears a sweater!

  No matter how iconic the look of Freddy may be, it's hard not to want a peek at everyone's favorite sarcastically creepy dream terror, especially with Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) in the iconic role. A new, dark and horrifying image has arrived online and that's so dark it's hard to see if it's Haley or just a publicity still of Robert Englund during his days as Freddy.

  As the photo shows, Freddy has kept his signature hat and striped sweater. The only part of Freddy that will be slightly altered is his face, though it will maintain a grotesque appearance reports IGN from their recent set visit. The filmmakers are taking a darker approach with the remake, as discussed by producer Brad Fuller:

  I think that our dreams are much closer to the first film than anything else. These nightmares are truly nightmares and that's one of the things that [director] Sam Bayer is so great about. We all have nightmares, but it's a difficult thing to communicate what they feel like, and I think that's what Sam is really doing an amazing job with.

  Haley also thinks the remake is going to darker places:

  I think we're focusing less on the camp and a little bit more of the scarier side. More of a serious side. And there's definitely, I think, a little more focus on, you know, what makes this guy who he is...I'm playing a boogeyman, you know? So that's what I'm really trying to embrace, but at the same time find out what makes this boogeyman tick. So there is room to look at his past and to see what's happened and to see what makes him who he is — to see what's made him the boogeyman that he is. But I think it's really important that Robert Englund and New Line have done such a fine job over the years of creating this world and this character. It's fun to kind of re-envision but at the same time we need to remain true, to a point, of who Freddy is and what the franchise represents. It's neat to get to re-envision it, but at the same time you don't want to go so far that we've left out what makes it so cool.

  
  

  Posted 07/22/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jackie Earle Haley | Samuel Bayer | Nightmare on Elm Street | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Monday, July 6

• What to Expect in the Watchmen: The Director's Cut

  

  For those who want a preview of the upcoming July 17-19 release of Watchmen: The Director's Cut before it opens in Dallas, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, or just want to know what they missed in the theater, AICN has listed the additions to Zack Snyder's cut. If you want to remain clean of Watchmen spoilers, now's the time to stop reading. Otherwise, read on...

  A few notable changes include:

  - More Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), including conversations with Dr. Malcolm, arguing with Laurie (Malin Akerman) on the prison rooftop, fighting with cops at the Comedian's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) apartment, and more monologues.

  - Hollis Mason, the original Nite Owl, has a montage death scene. Once Dan finds out he gets into a bar fight.

  - More interplay between Laurie and Jon (Billy Crudup) has been added, mostly things from the comic book.

  Other unknown changes will also be in there, adding up to a new running time of 3 hours and 10 minutes. That means an extra 30 minutes of new footage.

  
  

  Posted 07/06/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Billy Crudup | Malin Akerman | Jackie Earle Haley | Zack Snyder | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Watchmen

• Jackie Earle Haley Signed For Two More Elm Streets

  

  Warner Bros. and New Line Pictures must be feeling very confident about their Nightmare on Elm Street remake. The movie is still many months away from its April 16, 2010, release date and yet Jackie Earle Haley, who plays the crazed, psychotic killer Freddy Krueger, revealed to BloodyDisgusting that he is signed on to terrorize teenagers for another two movies. Three movies total? "Yeah," said Haley.

  Reports also have Rooney Mara, who will play heroine Nancy Thompson, returning for a second Nightmare as well. A remake of Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, perhaps?

  
  

  Posted 07/06/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jackie Earle Haley | Rooney Mara | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Nightmare on Elm Street | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Tuesday, June 30

• Old Freddy Endorses New Freddy in Nightmare on Elm Street Remake

  With almost every horror movie franchise being remade recently — Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre to name a few — Nightmare on Elm Street wasn't far behind. Robert Englund has been the only actor to appear in the series as Freddy, the dream-wandering psycho killer until Jackie Earle Haley was cast for the remake. In an interview with FearNet, however, Englund seems perfectly content to not be involved with the new Elm Street and sounds pretty excited about what director Samuel Bayer has in mind:

  I really am looking forward to how they exploit the dreamscape with CGI and all of the new technologies that they have at their fingertips. That is something I think that is appropriate and that's what I'm looking forward to. My feeling is that [producer] Michael Bay — this guy has more money than God — would not put his name on this if he didn't have some real love for the franchise. He wants to reboot it and reimagine it, and I hope he wants to reimagine it and make it different.

  Englund seems pleased with Haley wearing the knife glove this time around and is very taken with Haley's interpretation of the character;

  I love Jackie's character. Jackie is not big, and I think that Jackie's size is gonna really work for him as Freddy Krueger. Because I've always in my mindset imagined… One of the metaphors or one of the images I've used for Freddy is a little rabid dog that just bites your ankle and holds on. A little yelping dog. And I think Jackie brings that, with his own physicality, to the role, without ever having to work it a little bit. He doesn't really have to work that. He brings that naturally with who he is, which I think is really part of the way I see it.

  Englund hope Haley will be allowed to make changes as well:

  I'd even like to see Jackie dressed a little differently. Jackie's a wonderful young actor. Let him make it his own. I always used to think of alternates to what I wore in that and I would say, after wearing that sweater for eight movies and a television series, "Maybe he would wear overalls, because he's a janitor." Maybe the hat could be different; maybe it could be a baseball hat or an old frayed baseball hat or something. Maybe the sweater is a vest or maybe it's an old thermal undershirt, those colors or something like that. I mean you've got to keep some of the mythology there. Obviously he's got to be burned and everything. But I sort of hope they avoid my silhouette, and I hope they alter the glove a little bit, rough it up a little bit or make it more [David] Cronenberg or something. I don't know. I just want them to liberate themselves.

  Remakes can often not live up to the original, and Englund is sensitive to that fact, but doesn't want that held against the Elm Street remake:

  The remakes are tricky. But it's something Hollywood's been doing since the 1920s. I mean they've remade A Star is Born six times. I'm in one of them for God's sake!

  
  
  Next Showing: A Nightmare on Elm Street opens April 16, 2010

  Posted 06/30/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Robert Englund | Michael Bay | Jackie Earle Haley | Samuel Bayer | Nightmare on Elm Street | Halloween | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | A Star Is Born | Friday the 13th

Friday, June 12

• Twilight's Kellan Lutz Talks Elm Street

  MTV recently spoke to Twilight star Kellan Lutz about his upcoming role in 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street remake. When asked about the reboot, he said "It's very similar to the original, but with new characters. It's a really great cast, and the script is great."

  Also joining Lutz is Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) as Freddy Krueger, and TV stars Kyle Gallner (Smallville, Veronica Mars) and Thomas Dekker (The Sarah Connor Chronicles). What do you think — does Elm Street need a remake? And should it be a 90210-style teen slasher? We're not sure even Lutz's Twilight fan following is going to be enough to save this one.

  
  

  Posted 06/12/2009 by Jenny

  Related: Kellan Lutz | Thomas Dekker | Jackie Earle Haley | Kyle Gallner | Nightmare on Elm Street

Saturday, April 4

• Watchmen's Rorschach to Play Freddy Krueger

  

  Freddy Krueger, the fingers-tipped-with-razors, sweater-wearing, nasty-complexioned psycho killer from Wes Craven’s fright-fest franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street, is returning in a new series of films, courtesy of New Line Cinema. In the new films, the classic movie monster will be played by Jackie Earle Hayley, who powerfully portrayed Rorschach, super-powered vigilante of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen (2009).

  In the original film from 1984, Krueger stalked and killed teenagers in their dreams, killing them in the real world. Krueger has appeared in six Nightmare sequels and in Freddy vs. Jason, the 1993 crossover film with Jason Voorhees, the villain of the Friday the 13th franchise. According to Box Office Mojo, the Nightmare franchise is the third-highest grossing horror franchise in film history, with a lifetime gross of $307,420,075.

  Samuel Bayer is directing from a script by Wesley Strick. Shooting is expected to begin in Chicago in May.

  
  
  Next Showing: A Nightmare on Elm Street is scheduled for an April 16, 2010 release

  Posted 04/04/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jackie Earle Haley | Zack Snyder | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Nightmare on Elm Street | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | Wes Craven's New Nightmare | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child | Nightmare on Elm Street 6 | Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead | Watchmen

Tuesday, March 3

• 6 Watchmen Profiles to Air on NBC

  Let the countdown begin! With each passing day leading up to the Watchmen premiere, NBC is showing exclusive profiles of each of the Watchmen characters on either its own network or on USA or the SciFi Channel. The montage of Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) and Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) have already aired, and can be seen NBC's Watchmen site.

  According to NBC, here's the lineup of clips for the rest of this week:

  Tuesday, March 3: Ozymandias montage airs during Ghost Hunters International on Sci Fi.

  Wednesday, March 4: Nite Owl airs during Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi.

  Thursday, March 5: Silk Spectre II montage airs during Burn Notice on USA.

  Thursday, March 5: The Comedian montage airs during 30 Rock on NBC.

  
  
  Next Showing: Watchmen opens March 6

  Posted 03/03/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Billy Crudup | Jackie Earle Haley | Watchmen

Tuesday, February 24

• Watchmen: Rorschach's Video Journal

  Everybody knows that favorite Watchman Rorschach kept a detailed journal of his strange daily exploits. Well, here's his video journal, as introduced by director Zack Snyder.

  Already getting rave reviews for his portrayal of Rorschach, former child actor Jackie Earle Haley, plays the somewhat psychotic costumed adventurer whose mask is a moving mass of material reminescent of an inkblot test.

  
  

  Posted 02/24/2009 by reelz

  Related: Jackie Earle Haley | Zack Snyder | Watchmen

Tuesday, July 29

• Watchmen Cast Interview at Comic-Con

  

  Several Watchmen cast members, including Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, and Jackie Earle Haley took the time to discuss the challenges of working on the movie. If you had any doubts about the integrity of the adaptation, you'll be pleased to read about the process.

  
  

  Posted 07/29/2008 by reelz

  Related: Billy Crudup | Matthew Goode | Jackie Earle Haley | Watchmen

Wednesday, July 25

• Watchmen Casting: Wilson is definite, and much more

  It's official, the cast for Watchmen has been put into place. Directed by Zack Snyder, Watchmen will be an adaptation of the DC Comics series about the costumed vigilante, Rorschach.

  As we reported earlier, Patrick Wilson has indeed been cast as Nite-Owl. Joining him will be Jackie Earle Haley, who actually joined Wilson in last year's Little Children. This time around, Haley will be playing Rorschach, and not the creepy child molester next door.

  Also added to the cast: Billy Crudup (Almost Famous, Stage Beauty) as Dr. Manhattan, Matthew Goode (The Lookout, Match Point) as Ozymandias, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Grey's Anatomy) as the Comedian, and Malin Akerman (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) as the Silk Spectre.

  Keep checking ReelzChannel.com for any more Watchmen updates that come up during this weekend's Comic-Con!

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter

  
  

  Posted 07/25/2007 by reelz

  Related: Billy Crudup | Patrick Wilson | Matthew Goode | Malin Akerman | Jackie Earle Haley | Zack Snyder | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Watchmen