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Platinum Dunes may not sound familiar to you yet, but soon you’ll become very familiar with the name because the production company is growing famous for rebooting about a half dozen horror franchises.  Some familiar titles they’ve booted up are The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Friday the 13th. 

Freddy Krueger is here with us today in the teaser poster that just about everyone at Comic-Con is holding in their convention bags and talking about between booth visits and screenings. Freddy will, once again, be the scariest slasher on the horror scene with the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. There are no doubts in horror fans delight because Academy Award nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley is wearing the most notorious glove of all time in the lead role.

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With the Friday the 13th reboot coming up, it was only a matter of time before Freddy Krueger made his appearance. And that time is now, as Platinum Dunes co-heads Brad Fuller and Andrew Form told STYD that the deal is done to reboot the classic ‘80s horror franchise.

"It’s our next movie, hopefully shooting this spring" said Form, referring to Nightmare on Elm Street.

"It’s not Freddy cracking jokes. We want to make a horrifying movie. The concept is so scary, don’t fall asleep or you’ll die. This guy gets you when you’re most vulnerable, in your sleep. We love that. That’s the basis of the movie. It’ll be most similar to the first one but in terms of kills and dreams we’ll borrow from the entire series," says Fuller.

Original Freddy star Robert Englund will be back for a role, though someone new will step into the dream-hopping demon’s role.

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