10 Things You Didn’t Know About A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

10 Things You Didn’t Know About A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

A lot of people saw the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, but there are some things that even the biggest fans might not know about the movie.

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For over 25 years, Robert Englund was the only person to ever wear the Freddy makeup, but all that changed in 2010. That year Warner Bros. released their remake of Wes Craven’s masterpiece: A Nightmare on Elm Street. The film recast Freddy Krueger with Jackie Earle Haley, who starred alongside Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, and Katie Cassidy.

Warner Bros. also recruited Samuel Bayer to direct the film, with Michael Bay acting as a producer on the remake. Unfortunately, A Nightmare on Elm Street was widely panned by fans and critics alike. The film is nearing its tenth anniversary, but there are some things you might not know about the film. Here are 10 Things You Didn’t Know About A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010).

10 Jackie Earle Haley Was Their First Choice

One of the most significant changes that fans weren’t happy with was the decision to replace Robert Englund with Jackie Earle Haley. Some people weren’t even willing to give the film a chance if Englund didn’t return, but you couldn’t reboot the franchise with Englund as Freddy. With all that in mind, Jackie Earle Haley was always the executives top choice for Freddy Krueger.

By the time Haley was considered for the role, he had already been nominated for an Academy Award and appeared in Watchmen as Rorschach, the latter of which sparked Warner Bros. interest in Haley. Once executives saw screen tests that Haley did for Watchmen, they knew they had to have him as Freddy.

9 The Hat Wasn’t Finalized Until A Month Into Filming

If Warner Bros had released their A Nightmare on Elm Street remake without Freddy’s iconic fedora, glove, or striped sweater, fans would have lost it. Thankfully, the people working on the film knew how important these three components of Freddy were.

According to the featurette “Freddy Krueger Reborn,” the glove took three to four weeks to create the design and another month to build it, but the hat kept changing even a month into production. Yes, even a month into filming, the size of the block and the rim were still being adjusted.

8 The Original Sweater Designer Returned

Dana Lyman received credit as the costume designer in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, but a woman named Judy Graham was the one to design and make Freddy’s sweater. Graham also worked on A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master by building the sweater for the giant Freddy prop in the chest of souls sequence.

Fast forward to 2010, and Warner Bros. chose Mari-An Ceo as the costume designer for the remake. That being said, Ceo decided to bring back Graham once again to create Freddy’s sweater.

7 Samuel Bayer Originally Said No To Directing

Before A Nightmare on Elm Street, Samuel Bayer had directed dozens of music videos for a variety of artists. In fact, A Nightmare on Elm Street is the only feature-length film Bayer has ever directed.

Producer Brad Fuller once explained that they had tried to get him to direct a movie for three different horror franchises: Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Amityville Horror. Samuel Bayer just wouldn’t budge and initially said no to A Nightmare on Elm Street also. Only after Michael Bay personally sent him an email begging for him to take the job did Bayer finally accept the gig.

6 The Dark Knight Inspired The Film

With The Dark Knight being such as massively successful film when it came out in 2008, a lot of filmmakers looked to the movie for inspiration. The Dark Knight was not only successful financially, but the superhero flick also got critical praise and took home two Academy Awards. When talking with Fangoria, Bayer admitted that The Dark Knight heavily influenced how they approached A Nightmare on Elm Street. Bayer even went as far as to say, “I told all my cast and crew that we must do with Freddy what Christopher Nolan did with Batman. I’m trying to make a dark and serious film, and I hope I’m achieving that. One of the most extraordinary aspects of Dark Knight is the way it integrates Batman into a believable world, and I want to do just the same with Freddy.”

5 They Didn’t Bother To Get Wes Craven’s Input

Most horror buffs know that Wes Craven was not a fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels. He didn’t want his film to turn into a long-running franchise like Friday the 13th, but he didn’t have a choice when he sold the rights to the character to New Line Cinema.

The remake tried to get back to Freddy’s horror roots, but the filmmakers didn’t even bother to contact Craven for input. When talking with IGN, Craven commented, “I don’t even know who’s doing it and I’m not interested. It’s actually really painful to think about it. It’s the film of mine that I probably love the most, and which made the most money.”

4 Jackie Earle Haley And Rooney Mara Were Contracted For Sequels

Warner Bros. was no doubt hoping to spark new interest in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series and spawn a new set of films, but that didn’t happen. A Nightmare on Elm Street did well enough at the box office to warrant a sequel, but the film never got one.

Jackie Earle Haley and Rooney Mara were even contracted for sequels, with Haley supposed to return for at least two more films and Mara at least one more film. Even though fans will likely never see a sequel to the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street, Warner Bros is supposedly working on a reboot.

3 Rooney Mara Didn’t Want To Be In The Movie

While a lot of fans turned against A Nightmare on Elm Street, so did one of its stars. Rooney Mara played the character Nancy Holbrook, who was very different than Nancy Thompson in the original film. Not only was the character drastically different, but Mara hated the role, unlike Heather Langenkamp.

Mara even went as far as to say, “I didn’t want to act anymore. I was like, this isn’t what I signed up for. If this is what my opportunities are going to be like, then I’m not that interested in acting”. Mara also said that she didn’t really want the role when she auditioned, but she knew afterward that she had gotten the part.

2 Freddy Was Innocent In The Original Script

Previous A Nightmare on Elm Street movies explained that Freddy killed and harmed children, but the remake delves even more into his backstory. In the remake, Freddy is a gardener at a pre-school where he spends all day with the children. The film tries to trick the audience into thinking he is innocent, with Freddy coming back to seek revenge for killing an innocent man.

In the original script, Freddy was going to be innocent, but this idea was scrapped and re-written to have a plot twist in the middle of the film. Unfortunately, this change just seems jarring, with many people thinking that the fresh take on the character’s story would have been better in the long run.

1 Robert Englund Has A Theory As To Why The Film Failed

Since the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street was a remake, Robert Englund was not involved with the film. That being said, the star has a theory as to why the film failed. A few months before the movie was released, Warner Bros. released a Blu-ray box set of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

Englund thinks that this new format of his films struck a chord with a new generation of fans. In turn, people weren’t excited about a remake because they released the film too close to this Blu-ray release. Englund said he also thought the original opening to the film was better, which saw Freddy die in a hospital bed from the burns he sustained.

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