And the news gets worse, folks, as we discover, much to everyone’s alarm yet not really surprise so much that the test screener for Nightmare on Elm Street was, well…not QUITE a complete disaster but really close.
The problem apparently was not so much Jackie Earle Haley, who by all reports kicked more ass than Chuck Norris on crystal meth, but most everybody else. And as we all know, you can’t stiffen a bucket of spit with a handful of buckshot.
So word further says that some reshoots are being staged, and there may be some improvements. The question of the day is will they be sufficient improvements to save the film from a similar fate as Friday the 13th?
I–indeed, we all–will have to remember that in this case at least they’re trying. Seriously, they’re running this through tests and doing reshoots…they’re not specifically going for a failure this time around, and they’re not going to drop the ball horribly or anything like that. And even if they do…they weren’t planning to. And that gives me just a little grudging respect for Michael Bay and company at Platinum Dunes.
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