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Warner Bros Pictures' A Nightmare on Elm Street at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con.

A Nightmare on Elm Street Producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller

Okay, reboot, remake, re-imagining...?

Andrew Form: "Sure."

How do you describe a re-imagining?

Bradley Fuller: "You take the core contents of the concept and then you grow from there. So that's a re-imagining."

Andrew Form: "Interesting."

Bradley Fuller: "I just came up with that."

Andrew Form: "It's our fifth re-imagining."

Bradley Fuller: "We've re-imagined before."

Andrew Form: "Yes, we have. Yes."

They're tricky because a lot of the fans of the original are going, "Why are you messing with this?" Do you worry about that with this one or is this one like people are ready for a new one?

Andrew Form: "Well, we've been hearing that for eight years since we re-imagined Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Which I liked.

Andrew Form: "Thank you. There were a lot of angry people out there just when it was announced. Before there was ever even a screenplay or what they were going to do, people were down on us. So we've been living with this with all the re-imaginings we've done so..."

You're used to the internet chatter. Are you bothered by it at all?

Andrew Form: "Yes, of course we are."

Why pay attention then?

Bradley Fuller: "Can I tell you why honestly? We get good ideas from the internet too. When people write to us, sometimes we're in a position where we can make changes to the film or we think we have a good idea but we read something on a message board, and that has definitely affected our movies in a profound way in the past. You know, you've got to read a lot to get to the good stuff."

Can you point to one specific example?

Bradley Fuller: "Yeah, absolutely. Our first cut of Friday the 13th did not have the sequence that opens the movie showing how the mother got killed. And there was such a fan outcry when we tested the movie that that scene wasn't there, that we put it back in the movie."

Do you think anything like that might happen with Nightmare on Elm Street?

Bradley Fuller: "You never know and it's too soon to tell. You never know how the fans are going to react, but we pay a lot of attention to it."

And it's tricky casting Jackie Earle Haley - he's a fantastic actor - in a role so well known for someone else.

Andrew Form: "Only one person's ever played that character so it's a huge hurdle to overcome."

How much do you have to be faithful to that and can you delve more into a backstory because you're re-imagining the film?

Andrew Form: "Well, you don't want to go too off on the original story of the movie. But the truth is, Jackie is playing Freddy Krueger. We do go into the backstory a little more with his character. We changed up his make-up. We left the iconic elements of the character as far as the sweater and the hat and a modified version of the glove. But, you know, he does look different. When you look at his face, it's a different Freddy Krueger."

How much of a decision was it to use the hat and the sweater? Did you toss and turn over that?

Andrew Form: "No, I don't think we ever tossed over whether he'd be wearing a red and green sweater or a fedora or the glove. I think those are things that we always knew. That, and like we always wanted the Tina character in the body bag. There's a handful of things we always wanted in this movie."

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