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    "articleBody": "Freddy Krueger is going back to the beginning. Paramount’s new A Nightmare on Elm Street film, confirmed this month as moving ahead, is built on Wes Craven’s own screenplay for the 1984 original, the script that introduced the burned, striped-sweater dream killer and launched a nine-film series. The project will be the first release for Paramount Primal, the studio’s new label for lower-budget horror, action, comedy and grounded science fiction. It is the first serious attempt at a new Freddy movie since the 2010 remake, which critics savaged with a 14% Rotten Tomatoes score. Who is making it Craven died in 2015, and his estate controls the original script. The estate’s Iya Labunka and Jonathan Craven, Wes Craven’s son, are producing with lawyer and producer Marc Toberoff. Paramount Primal’s heads, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, executive produce. That pair has a strong recent horror record, with credits on Barbarian, Companion and Weapons. No director, writer or cast has been announced, and the studio has said nothing about the story. Nobody has confirmed whether Robert Englund, now in his late 70s and the face of Freddy for eight films, will be involved in any form. How the rights got so tangled The new movie only exists because of an unusually messy rights history. Our timeline, built from the franchise record: 1984 to 2010: New Line Cinema releases all nine films, from Craven’s original to the Platinum Dunes remake starring Jackie Earle Haley. 2015 to 2018: New Line and Warner Bros. develop a second remake with Orphan writer David Leslie Johnson. It stalls while the studio focuses on The Conjuring films. 2019: Film rights revert to the Craven estate, which begins hearing pitches for films and a possible streaming series. July 2026: Paramount licenses US rights to Craven’s original screenplay. Warner Bros. and New Line keep international rights, and Warner reportedly starts a rival project. October 6, 2026: Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merge into Skydance Corporation, which makes Skydance Motion Picture Group the worldwide rights holder for the whole series. November 2026: the Paramount version is confirmed as the one moving forward. In other words, the merger ended a strange situation in which two studios could each have made a Freddy film for different parts of the world. Badiyaa has followed the new company closely, from Laurene Powell Jobs’s $250 million stake in Skydance to the plan to sell HBO Max and Paramount+ as one bundle in early 2027. What Craven’s script brings back Going back to the 1984 screenplay is a pointed choice. The original was cheap, about $1.8 million, and earned more than $57 million worldwide. Its premise was simple: teenagers in the fictional town of Springwood, Ohio, are hunted in their sleep, so staying awake becomes a matter of survival. Craven named the villain after a boy who bullied him at school and picked red and green for the sweater after reading that the two colors clash hardest on the human eye. Later sequels turned Freddy into a wisecracking showman. The 2010 remake tried the opposite and failed. Craven himself was unhappy with that film, partly because he was not brought in as a consultant. This time his family holds the producer credits. Horror is in a strong commercial spell, too. Jessica Chastain’s Other Mommy turned a $19 million budget into $111.5 million at the box office this fall. Across all nine films, the Elm Street series has grossed about $490 million worldwide. Further reading Wikipedia: A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) Illustrative image. Image: Unknown photographer, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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