{"id":525884,"date":"2025-10-25T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/525884\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:32:12","slug":"nightmare-on-elm-street-director-wants-jim-carrey-as-the-next-freddy-krueger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/525884\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare on Elm Street Director Wants Jim Carrey As the Next Freddy Krueger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That said, while Carrey has been great in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/the-truman-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Truman Show<\/a> and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he still hasn\u2019t proven himself in horror. Despite its vampire plot, Once Bitten is a comedy and the thrillers The Number 23 and Dark Crimes are low points in his filmography.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Russell is convinced that the actor can pull off the part of Freddy, provided the project meets his standards. \u201cFor Jim to do it, we\u2019d have to do something that was another leap in the Elm Street series \u2014 a little bit like what Wes did with his very meta New Nightmare. I think Jim would only consider it, and I\u2019d only consider harnessing Jim, if there was a bold new direction for Elm Street,\u201d he mused.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Russell\u2019s not opposed to bringing back other familiar faces, were he to get another crack at the franchise. \u201cI\u2019d love to do another Elm Street if there was the full support of everybody,\u201d he admitted, pointing out that the star of his film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/patricia-arquette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patricia Arquette<\/a> \u201chas said she\u2019d like to do it again in the press.\u201d In fact, even while musing about the possibilities of returning to the franchise and of bringing on Jim Carrey, even Russell couldn\u2019t forget about Englund.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWere I to be involved in a new Elm Street, A, I\u2019d be delighted, and B, my first goal would be to get Robert involved,\u201d he declared. \u201cI still think Robert, for me, is the only Freddy.\u201d It\u2019s hard to disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That said, while Carrey has been great in The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-525884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115431994040979145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}